²² “^(A)Then all of you approached me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.’

²³ When the Lord sent you from ^(A)Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘^(B)Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the ^[a]command of the Lord your God; ^(C)you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice.