Numbers 13:2
13:2 “Send out men to investigate
the land of Canaan, which I am giving
to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe,
each one a leader among them.”
Numbers 13:16-17
13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
The Spies’ Instructions
13:17 When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country
Numbers 13:21
The Spies’ Activities
13:21 So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at the entrance of Hamath.
Numbers 13:25
13:25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
Numbers 13:32
13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging
report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through
to investigate is a land that devours
its inhabitants.
All the people we saw there
are of great stature.