²² “^(A)Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men ahead of us, so that they may spy 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 should enter.’

²³ And when the Lord sent you from ^(A)Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘^(B)Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,’ you rebelled against the ^[a]command of the Lord your God; ^(C)you neither trusted Him nor listened to His voice.