22 When they had gone up into (A)the Negev, [a]they came to Hebron where (B)Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the [b]descendants of (C)Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before (D)Zoan in Egypt.)

23 Then they came to the [c]valley of [d](E)Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs. 24 That place was called the valley of [e]Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:22 Lit Most mss read one came
  2. Numbers 13:22 Lit children
  3. Numbers 13:23 Or wadi
  4. Numbers 13:23 I.e. cluster
  5. Numbers 13:24 I.e. cluster