Chapter 1
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We journeyed from Horeb and went through all the great and fearsome wilderness that you saw, the way of the mountain of the Amorite, just as the LORD our God commanded us, and we came as far as Kadesh Barnea.
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I said to you, "You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us."
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See, the LORD your God has given the land before you. Go up, possess it, just as the LORD God of your fathers spoke to you. Do not fear and do not be dismayed.
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You all approached me, every one of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, and they will explore the earth for us and they will return words to us, the way by which we will ascend in it and the cities to which we will come."
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The thing was good in my eyes, and I took twelve men from you, one man per tribe.
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They turned and went up into the mountain and came to the Wadi Eschol and spied it out.
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They took some of the land's fruit in their hands and brought it down to us and returned to us and said, "The land that the LORD our God is giving us is good."