The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one man for each tribe.
The Lord spoke to Moses:
‘Then all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send men ahead of us, so that they may explore the land for us and bring us back a report about the route we should go up and the cities we will come to.”
They left and went up into the hill country and came to Eshcol Valley, scouting the land.
That’s what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.