Deuteronomy 1:22

New International Reader's Version

Then all of you came to me. You said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us. They can check out the land for us and bring back a report. They can suggest to us which way to go. They can tell us about the towns we’ll come to.”

Cross References

Numbers 32:8

That’s what your fathers did. I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to check out the land.

Deuteronomy 1:23

That seemed like a good idea to me. So I chose 12 of you. I picked one man from each tribe.