Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

Moshe went out and told the people what ADONAI had said. Then he collected seventy of the leaders of the people and placed them all around the tent.

ADONAI came down in the cloud, spoke to him, took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy leaders. When the Spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied -then but not afterwards.

There were two men who stayed in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad, and the Spirit came to rest on them. They were among those listed to go out to the tent, but they hadn't done so, and they prophesied in the camp.

A young man ran and told Moshe, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"

Y'hoshua, the son of Nun, who from his youth up had been Moshe's assistant, answered, "My lord, Moshe, stop them!"

But Moshe replied, "Are you so zealous to protect me? I wish all of ADONAI's people were prophets! I wish ADONAI would put his Spirit on all of them!"

Moshe and the leaders of Isra'el went back into the camp;

Moshe dispatched them from the Pa'ran Desert as ADONAI had ordered; all of them were leading men among the people of Isra'el.

Here are their names: from the tribe of Re'uven, Shamua the son of Zakur;

from the tribe of Shim'on, Shafat the son of Hori;

from the tribe of Y'hudah, Kalev the son of Y'funeh;

from the tribe of Yissakhar, Yig'al the son of Yosef;

from the tribe of Efrayim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

from the tribe of Binyamin, Palti the son of Rafu;

from the tribe of Z'vulun, Gadi'el the son of Sodi;

from the tribe of Yosef, that is, from the tribe of M'nasheh, Gadi the son of Susi;

from the tribe of Dan, 'Ammi'el the son of G'malli;

from the tribe of Asher, S'tur the son of Mikha'el;

from the tribe of Naftali, Nachbi the son of Vofsi; and

from the tribe of Gad, Ge'u'el the son of Makhi.

These are the names of the men Moshe sent out to reconnoiter the land. Moshe gave to Hoshea the son of Nun the name Y'hoshua.

Moshe sent them to reconnoiter the land of Kena'an, instructing them, "Go on up to the Negev and into the hills,

and see what the land is like. Notice the people living there, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;

and what kind of country they live in, whether it is good or bad; and what kind of cities they live in, open or fortified.

See whether the land is fertile or unproductive and whether there is wood in it or not. Finally, be bold enough to bring back some of the fruit of the land." When they left it was the season for the first grapes to ripen.