Numbers 32:8

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Numbers 32:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

7 Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

9 For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.

10 So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

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Numbers 13:2

“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”

Numbers 13:3

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

Numbers 13:4

and these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;

Numbers 13:5

from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;

Numbers 13:6

from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

Numbers 13:7

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

Numbers 13:8

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

Numbers 13:9

from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;

Numbers 13:10

from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;

Numbers 13:11

from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;

Numbers 13:12

from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;

Numbers 13:13

from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael;

Numbers 13:14

from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;

Numbers 13:15

and from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Machi.

Numbers 13:16

These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

Numbers 13:17

When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Numbers 13:18

See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.

Numbers 13:19

Is the land where they live good or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or fortifications?

Numbers 13:20

Is the soil fertile or unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

Numbers 13:21

So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Numbers 13:23

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

Numbers 13:24

Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

Numbers 13:25

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Numbers 13:26

and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 14:2

All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Deuteronomy 1:22

Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”

Deuteronomy 1:23

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

Joshua 14:6

Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

Joshua 14:7

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.