Agreeing with the proposal, I took twelve men from your number, one from each tribe.
The Lord said to Moses:
That is just what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to reconnoiter the land.
Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and report to us on the road we should follow and the cities we will come upon.”
They set out into the hill country as far as the Wadi Eshcol, and explored it.