Numbers 13:17-20 - The Spies' Instructions
17 Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, "Go up [like] this to the Negev, and go up into the hill country, 18 and you will see what the land is [like] and if the people who inhabit it [are] strong or weak, or whether they are few or many, 19 and whether the land that they [are] inhabiting [is] good or bad, and whether the cities they [are] inhabiting are camps or fortifications, 20 and whether the land [is] fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land." It [was] the time of first ripe grapes.