1Zvino Jehovha akataura naMozisi, akati,
1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2Tuma varume kuti vandoshora nyika yeKanani, yandichapa vana vaIsiraeri; utume mumwe worudzi rumwe norumwe rwamadzibaba avo, vose vave vakuru pakati pavo.
2“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”
3Mozisi akavatuma, vakabva murenje reParani, nokuraira kwaJehovha, vose vavo vari varume vaiva vakuru vavana vaIsiraeri.
3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
4Ndiwo mazita avo: Vokurudzi rwaRubheni, Shamua, mwanakomana waZakuri.
4These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
5Vokurudzi rwaSimioni, Shafati, mwanakomana waHori.
5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
6Vokurudzi rwaJudha, Karebhu, mwanakomana waJefune.
6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
7Vokurudzi rwaIsakari, Igari, mwanakomana waJosefa.
7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
8Vokurudzi rwaEfuremu, Hoshea, mwanakomana waNuni.
8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
9Vokurudzi rwaBhenjamini, Paruti, mwanakomana waRafu.
9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
10Vokurudzi rwaZebhuruni, Gadhieri, mwanakomana waSodhi.
10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
11Vokurudzi rwaJosefa, irwo rudzi rwaManase, Gadhi, mwanakomana waSusi.
11Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
12Vokurudzi rwaDhani, Amieri, mwanakomana waGemari.
12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13Vokurudzi rwaAsheri, Seturi, mwanakomana waMikaeri.
13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
14Vokurudzi rwaNafutari, Nabhi, mwanakomana waVhofusi.
14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
15Vokurudzi rwaGadhi, Geueri, mwanakomana waMaki.
15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
16Ndiwo mazita avarume vakatumwa naMozisi kundoshora nyika. Mozisi akatumidza Hoshea, mwanakomana waNuni, zita rinonzi Joshua.
16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
17Mozisi akavatuma kundoshora nyika yeKanani, akati kwavari, Endai nenzira iyi yeZasi, mukwire mumakomo;
17Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:
18mundoona nyika, kuti yakadiniko, navanhu vageremo, kana vane simba, kana vasina, kana vari vashoma, kana vari vazhinji;
18and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
19nenyikawo yavageremo, kuti yakadiniko, kana yakanaka, kana yakaipa; namaguta mavagere, kuti akadiniko, kana vagere mumisasa kana munhare;
19and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
20nevhu, kuti rakadiniko, kana rakaorera kana risina kuorera, kana pane miti kana pasina miti; tsungai moyo, mugouya nezvibereko zvenyika iyo. Zvino yaiva nguva yokutanga kuibva kwamazambiringa.
20and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.”
21Naizvozvo vakakwira vakandoshora nyika, vachibva murenje reZini, kusvikira Rehobhu, pavanopinda Hamati.
21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
22Vakapinda neZasi, vakasvika Hebhuroni; ipapo pakanga pana Ahimani naSheshai naTarimai, vanakomana vaAnaki. (Pakuvakwa Hebhuroni rakatangira Zoani paEgipita namakore manomwe.)
22They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23Vakandosvika pamupata weEshikori, vakatema davi raiva nesumbu rimwe ramazambiringa, vakaritakura padanda pakati pavanhu vaviri; vakauyawo namatamba namaonde.
23They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
24Nzvimbo iyo vakaitumidza mupata weEshikori nokuda kwesumbu rakatemwapo navana valsiraeri.
24That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
25Mazuva ana makumi mana akati apera, vakadzoka pakushora nyika.
25They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
26Vakasvika kuna Mozisi naAroni neungano yose yavana vaIsiraeri, murenje reParani paKadheshi, vakavaudza mashoko nokuvaratidza ivo neungano yose zvibereko zvenyika iyo.
26They went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
27Vakamuudza, vakati, Takaenda kunyika iyo kwamakatituma; zvirokwazvo inoyerera mukaka nouchi; izvi ndizvo zvibereko zvayo.
27They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is its fruit.
28Asi vanhu vagere munyika iyo vane simba, maguta akakombwa namasvingo, makuru kwazvo; uye, takaonapo vana vaAnaki.
28However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
29VaAmareki vagere munyika nechezasi, navaHeti, navaJebhusi, navaAmori vagere mumakomo; vaKanani vagere pagungwa, nokurutivi rwaJoridhani.
29Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.”
30Ipapo Karebhu akanyaradza vanhu pamberi paMozisi akati, Ngatikwire pakarepo, tindoitora, nekuti tinogona kwazvo kuikunda.
30Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”
31Asi vamwe varume vakanga vakwira naye, vakati, Hatigoni kukwira kundorwa navanhu avo, nekuti vanotikurira nesimba.
31But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
32Naizvozvo vakauya kuvana vaIsiraeri neshoko rakaipa pamusoro penyika iyo, yavakanga vaenda kundoishora, vachiti, Nyika iyo yatakapfuura napakati payo kuishora, inyika inopedza vanhu vageremo; vanhu vose vatakaonamo vaiva varume vakakura kwazvo.
32They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
33Takaonapo vanhu varefu, vana vaAnaki, vanobva pavarefu; kana tichizvifananidza, takanga takaita semhashu, ndozvatakanga takaita kwavariwo.
33There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”