Numbers 13:17 meaning and explanation
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
Numbers 13:17, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is speaking to the twelve tribal leaders he has just sent from Kadesh in the Wilderness of Paran, as Israel camps on the edge of the promised land. His instruction is practical: enter from the south through the Negev, the dry region below the hill country, then move up into the central highlands where most settlements lay.
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