If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

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

and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,

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.

But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”

Why has the Lord brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.

But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land to which I am bringing you

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord your God.”

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince over us?

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

And whatever first ripe fruit in their land they bring to the Lord will be yours; everyone who is ceremonially clean in your household may eat of it.

The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.