“The idea seemed good to me, so I took twelve men from among you—one man for each tribe.
Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
“Then all of you came near to me and said: ‘Let’s send men ahead of us to explore the land for us and bring us back word about the way we should go up and the cities we will enter.’
They turned and went up into the hill country, and they came to the Wadi Eshcol and spied it out.
Your fathers did this when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land.