SUMMARY
The spies sent to investigate the land return with an abundance of produce.
ANALYSIS
MosesProphet who led Israel out of Egypt to the Promised Land and received the law at Sinai. sends “spies” into Canaan to investigate the land, to see whether it is “good or bad” (13:19). The land proves to be good, indeed. A single cluster of grapes requires two men to carry it on a pole between them! Pomegranates and figs abound as well. The story gives the name to the place to which the spies were sent: Wadi Eshcol (“eshcol” in Hebrew means “a cluster of grapes”).