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The standard of the camp of the children of Judah set out first according to their armies; over their army was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Over the army of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.

And over the army of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

Over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

And over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set out according to their armies; over their army was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

Over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

And over the army of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Then the standard of the camp of the children of Dan (the rear guard of all the camps) set out according to their armies; over their army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Over the army of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.

And over the army of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

Thus was the order of march of the children of Israel, according to their armies, when they began their journey.

Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them."

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 children of Israel.

Now they departed and came back to Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.