But when you assemble the community, you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm.

If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

"Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them."

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country

They told Moses, "We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.

If these men die a natural death, or if they share the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: 'You know all the hardships we have experienced,

So when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,

Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying, "Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me.

Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,

Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"

And Balak sacrificed bulls and sheep, and sent some to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel."

So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge of the holy articles and the signal trumpets.

So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord."

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.