Deuteronomy 1:21

¹⁹And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great wilderness and terrible, which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Kadesh-barnea.

²⁰And I said to you, Ye have come as far as the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God gives to you:

— Deuteronomy 1:21 —

²²And ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.

²³And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a tribe.