The spies sent from the wilderness of Paran

• Deuteronomy 1:22–23 says, “You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, ‘Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.’ The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.”
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  • DEU 1:19–25, engwebp

    ¹⁹We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

    ²⁰I said to you, “You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives to us.

    ²¹Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD the God of your fathers has spoken to you. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed.”

    ²²You came near to me, everyone of you, and said, “Let’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”

    ²³The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.

    ²⁴They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

    ²⁵They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which the LORD our God gives to us.”

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• Numbers 13:1–2 says that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”
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  • NUM 13:1–16, engwebp

    ¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    ²“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”

    ³Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.

    ⁴These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

    ⁵Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

    ⁶Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

    ⁷Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

    ⁸Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

    ⁹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

    ¹⁰Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.

    ¹¹Of the tribe of Joseph, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

    ¹²Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

    ¹³Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

    ¹⁴Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

    ¹⁵Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

    ¹⁶These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

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Deuteronomy 1:22–23 has the proposal to send men come from those addressed, and the speaker find it good; Numbers 13:1–2 has the LORD tell Moses to send them. This collection keeps the two books’ events apart, records each as its text stands, and does not reconcile them.