⁵ When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,^(A) Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites^(B)—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey^(C)—you are to observe this ceremony^(D) in this month:

²³ When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,^[a](A) they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates^(B) and figs.^{(C) 24} That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there. ²⁵ At the end of forty days^(D) they returned from exploring the land.^(E)

Report on the Exploration

²⁶ They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh^(F) in the Desert of Paran.^(G) There they reported to them^(H) and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.^{(I) 27} They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey!^(J) Here is its fruit.^(K)

⁸ a land with wheat and barley,^(A) vines^(B) and fig trees,^(C) pomegranates, olive oil and honey;^(D)