23. And since the word was pleasing to me, I sent from among you twelve men, one from each tribe.
24. These, when they had set out and had ascended the mountains, arrived as far as the valley of the cluster of grapes. And having considered the land,
25. having taken from its fruits in order to show its fertility, they brought these to us, and they said: 'The land that the Lord our God will give to us is good.'
26. Yet you were not willing to go there. Instead, being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,
27. you murmured in your tents, and you said: 'The Lord hates us, and therefore he has led us away from the land of Egypt, so that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorite and destroy us.