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17 Moses sent them to scout the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up this way through the Negev[a] and go up into the hill country.[b] 18 See what the land is like. See if the people who live in the land are strong or weak. See if they are few or many. 19 See if the land that they live in is good or bad. See what kind of cities they live in. See if the cities are camps or fortified places.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:17 The Negev is the arid and semi-arid region south of the hill country of Judah.
  2. Numbers 13:17 Literally the mountain. The translation retains the traditional rendering hill country for the highland regions of Israel.