Shabbat Minyan: Parshat Shlach Lecha 5777

Now when Moshe sent them to scout out the land of Canaan,

he said to them:

Go up this (way) through the Negev/Parched-Land,

and (then) you are to go up into the hill-country.

And see the land--what it is (like),

and the population that is settled in it:

are they strong or weak,

are they few or many;

and what the land is (like), where they are settled:

is it good or ill;

and what are the towns are (like), where they are settled therein:

are (they) encampments or fortified-places;

and what the land is (like):

is it fat or lean,

are there in it trees, or not?

Now exert yourselves,

and take (some) of the fruit of the land

--now these days (are) the days of the first ripe-grapes.

The Schocken Bible: Volume 1, The Five Books of Moses, Everett Fox, p. 722

And Moses sent them to scout the land of Canaan, and he said to them, "Go up this way through the Negeb, and you shall go up into the high country. And you shall see the land, what is it like, and the people that dwells in it, are they strong or slack, are they few or many. And what is the land in which they dwell, is it good or bad, and what are the towns in which they dwell, are they in open settlements or in fortresses. And what is the land, is it fat or lean, are there trees in it or not. And you shall muster strength and take of the fruit of the land." And the season was the season of the first ripe grapes.

The Five Books of Moses, Robert Alter, p. 746