"Command the {Israelites}: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through [contact with] a corpse.

You will send away {both male and female}; you will send them {outside the camp}. They must not make unclean their camps where I [am] dwelling in their midst."

So the {Israelites} did so. They sent them away {outside the camp}; just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the {Israelites}.

"Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I [am about] to give to the {Israelites}; {from each tribe of his father send one man}, everyone a leader among them."

So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men [were] {leaders} of the {Israelites}.

These [are] the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua.

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,

And they told him, "We came to the land that you sent us, and it [is] flowing of milk and honey; this [is] its fruit.

As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land,

Moses sent to call [for] Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come!

And Moses said, "In this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; [it is] not from my heart.

{If they die a natural death} or {if a natural fate is visited upon them}, Yahweh has not sent me.

From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: "Thus your brother Israel has said, 'You know all the hardship that has found us;

Then we cried to Yahweh, and he heard our voice; he sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt. And look, we [are] in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died.

Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying,

Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured {its environs} and dispossessed the Amorites who [were] there.

He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor [at] Pethor, which [is] by the river, in the land of the children of his people, to summon him, saying, "Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover {the surface of the land}; they [are about] to dwell opposite me.

And Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent [word] to me,

Balak again sent many princes, [who were more] honored {than the former}.

And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?"

And Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he sent [them] to Balaam and to the princes who [were] with him.

Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

A thousand from each tribe of every tribe of Israel you will send to battle."

Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast [were] in his hand.

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.