You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,

Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come up.

Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,

And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel.”

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

“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.”

“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

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

They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

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,

Then Moses said, “This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.