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and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,

and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,

So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.

And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people 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 told him, "We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.

And they said to one another, "Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt."

Only do not rebel against the Lord . And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them."

And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?

I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord , are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord , are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

I, the Lord , have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die."

And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that the Lord has promised, for we have sinned."

And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the Lord , and their sin offering before the Lord for their mistake.

And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord ?"

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, "We will not come up.