Numbers 13:1-3

Revised Standard Version

Spies Sent into Canaan

13 The Lord said to Moses, ² “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.” ³ So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.