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.

“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.

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.

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.

All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “What if the earth swallows us too?”

The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

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

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

You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year for the first ripe grapes.

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.

When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the Lord had given them.