“Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”

When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he said to them, “Go up there into the Negev; then go up into the hill country.

The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us across the Jordan.”

Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

“Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders.

These are those whom the Lord commanded to apportion the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.