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.p>

“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, &#8220;The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly<n id="1" /> good land.

<p class="bodytext">The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing<n id="1" /> an evil report about the land,

and the land is subdued before the <sc>Lordsc>, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the <sc>Lordsc> and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.p>

and you eat<n id="1" /> some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob,<n id="1" /> at the entrance of Hamath.<n id="2" />

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,<n id="1" /> all the earth will be filled with the glory of the <sc>Lordsc>.

they will by no means<n id="1" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc>.

All the Israelites<n id="1" /> who were around them fled at their cry,<n id="2" /> for they said, &#8220;What if<n id="3" /> the earth swallows us too?&#8221;

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

the land that the <sc>Lordsc> subdued<n id="1" /> before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.&#8221;

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

You must take one leader from every<n id="1" /> tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.<n id="2" />

and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave,<n id="1" /> and bring back some of the fruit of the land.&#8221; Now it was the time of year<n id="2" /> for the first ripe grapes.<n id="3" />p>

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging<n id="1" /> report of the land they had investigated, saying, &#8220;The land that we passed through<n id="2" /> to investigate is a land that devours<n id="3" /> its inhabitants.<n id="4" /> All the people we saw there<n id="5" /> are of great stature.

When<n id="1" /> they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter<n id="2" /> the land that the <sc>Lordsc> had given<n id="3" /> them.