Even when the cloud stayed over the tabernacle many days, the Israelites carried out the Lord’s requirement and did not set out.

See what the land is like, and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many.

This is how you must prepare each of them, no matter how many.

Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.

Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.