²¹ See, Yahweh your God has given over the land before you; go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. ^(A)Do not fear or be dismayed.’

²² “^(B)Then all of you came near to 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.’ ²³ And the thing was good in my sight, and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.