Bible Verses About Israel: Send Twelve Spies to View the Land

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.

Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.