Then all of you approached me and said, "Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter."

Numbers 13:1
And the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 13:2
"Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers' tribes send one man who is a leader among them."

Deuteronomy 1:23
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

And you came near to me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.