translation: sh'lach l'cha (first aliya)

I read torah on Shabbat and, urged on by a lot of repetition and mostly simple vocabulary, translated from the scroll after the reading. (I did have to rely on other translations for a couple words, but I got most of it on my own. Yay.) Here's my translation of Num 13:1-20. It's a little less precise than when I do the midrash translation; I've taken a few small liberties to make the text flow better.
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this week's d'var torah

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