¹ 耶和华晓谕摩西说：

² 你打发人去窥探我所赐给以色列人的迦南地，他们每支派中要打发一个人，都要作首领的。

³ 摩西就照耶和华的吩咐，从巴兰的旷野打发他们去；他们都是以色列人的族长。

⁴ 他们的名字：属流便支派的有撒刻的儿子沙母亚。

⁵ 属西缅支派的有何利的儿子的沙法。

⁶ 属犹大支派的有耶孚尼的儿子迦勒。

⁷ 属以萨迦支派的有约色的儿子以迦。

⁸ 属以法莲支派的有嫩的儿子何西阿。

⁹ 属便雅悯支派的有拉孚的儿子帕提。

¹⁰ 属西布伦支派的有梭底的儿子迦叠。

¹¹ 约瑟的子孙属玛拿西支派的有稣西的儿子迦底。

¹² 属但支派的有基玛利的儿子亚米利。

¹³ 属亚设支派的有米迦勒的儿子西帖。

¹⁴ 属拿弗他利支派的有缚西的儿子拿比。

¹⁵ 属迦得支派的有玛基的儿子臼利。

¹⁶ 这就是摩西所打发窥探那地之人的名字。摩西就称嫩的儿子何西阿为约书亚。

¹⁷ 摩西打发他们去窥探迦南地，说：你们从南地上山地去，

¹⁸ 看那地如何，其中所住的民是强是弱，是多是少，

¹⁹ 所住之地是好是歹，所住之处是营盘是坚城。

²⁰ 又看那地土是肥美是瘠薄，其中有树木没有。你们要放开胆量，把那地的果子带些来。那时正是葡萄初熟的时候。

²¹ 他们上去窥探那地，从寻的旷野到利合，直到哈马口。

²² 他们从南地上去，到了希伯仑；在那里有亚衲族人亚希幔、示筛、挞买。原来希伯仑城被建造比埃及的锁安城早七年。

²³ 他们到了以实各谷，从那里砍了葡萄树的一枝，上头有一挂葡萄，两个人用杠抬着，又带了些石榴和无花果来。

²⁴ 因为以色列人从那里砍来的那挂葡萄，所以那地方叫做以实各谷。

²⁵ 过了四十天，他们窥探那地才回来，

²⁶ 到了巴兰旷野的加低斯，见摩西、亚伦，并以色列的全会众，回报摩西、亚伦，并全会众，又把那地的果子给他们看；

²⁷ 又告诉摩西说：我们到了你所打发我们去的那地，果然是流奶与蜜之地；这就是那地的果子。

²⁸ 然而住那地的民强壮，城邑也坚固宽大，并且我们在那里看见了亚衲族的人。

²⁹ 亚玛力人住在南地；赫人、耶布斯人、亚摩利人、住在山地；迦南人住在海边并约但河旁。

³⁰ 迦勒在摩西面前安抚百姓，说：我们立刻上去得那地罢！我们足能得胜。

³¹ 但那些和他同去的人说：我们不能上去攻击那民，因为他们比我们强壮。

³² 探子中有人论到所窥探之地，向以色列人报恶信，说：我们所窥探、经过之地是吞吃居民之地，我们在那里所看见的人民都身量高大。

³³ 我们在那里看见亚衲族人，就是伟人；他们是伟人的後裔。据我们看，自己就如蚱蜢一样；据他们看，我们也是如此。

¹ Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

² Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

³ "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

⁴ Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

⁵ "Simeon and Levi are brothers. Their swords are weapons of violence.

⁶ My soul, don't come into their council. My glory, don't be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

⁸ "Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you.

⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

¹² His eyes will be red with wine, his teeth white with milk.

¹³ "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

¹⁴ "Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.

¹⁵ He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.

¹⁶ "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

¹⁹ "A troop will press on Gad, but he will press on their heel.

²⁰ "Asher's food will be rich. He will yield royal dainties.

²¹ "Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

²² "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.

²³ The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

²⁴ But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

²⁵ even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

²⁶ The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

²⁷ "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."

²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.

²⁹ He instructed them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

³⁰ in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

³² the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth."

³³ When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.