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You came near to me everyone of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.
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The People's Idea
Commentators highlight a key detail revealed here: the plan to send spies originated with the people, not God. While Numbers 13 says God commanded Moses to send them, this verse clarifies that the people proposed it first. Moses reminds them of this to emphasize their own responsibility for the rebellion that followed.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The plan of sending the spies originated with the people; and, since it was in itself a reasonable one, Moses approved of it; it was submitted to G…
19th Century
Anglican
And ye came near ... and said, We will send. —A new aspect is here given to the sending of the twelve spies. In Numbers 1…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you came near to me everyone of you Not every individual of them, but the heads of their tribes, that represente…
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