19. “Then we set out from Horeb, and we went through the whole of that great and terrible desert that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and so we came up to Kadesh Barnea.
20. I said to you, ‘You have reached the hill country of the Amorites that Yahweh our God is giving to us.
21. See, Yahweh your God has set before you the land; go up and possess it as Yahweh the God of your ancestors said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.’
22. “Then all of you approached me, and you said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back a report to us concerning the way that we should take and concerning the cities that we shall come to.’
23. The plan was good in my opinion, and so I took from among you twelve men, one from each tribe.
24. And they set out and went up into the hill country, and they went up to the wadi of Eschol, and they spied out the land.