the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

So the Israelites lived in the land of the Amorites.

“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

They said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.

If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us – a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the Lord’s sight.

and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the Lord.

They traveled from Kadesh and camped in Mount Hor at the edge of the land of Edom.

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.

“Give these instructions to the Israelites, and tell them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that has been assigned to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its borders,

“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

But Hobab said to him, “I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at the entrance of Hamath.

And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, two of those who had investigated the land, tore their garments.

But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the Lord.

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.