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aSend out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one a leader among them."
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Deuteronomy 1:22, Deuteronomy 9:23
Deuteronomy 1
22
"aThen all of you approached me and said, 'Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.'
Deuteronomy 9
23
"When the Lord sent you from aKadesh-barnea, saying, 'bGo up and possess the land which I have given you,' then you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; cyou neither believed Him nor listened to His voice.