Part 17
Numbers 13:1-3 Then the LORD spoke to Moses saying, "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." So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.
So we have now fast forwarded to the Exodus of the nation of Israel. God delivered them from Egypt in the most miraculous fashion that destroyed the nation of Egypt in every element of its culture. But, here we read of a linkage back to the days of Noah in Genesis 6.
Numbers 13:17-21 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. "See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many. "How is the land in which they live, is it good or bad? And how are the cities in which they live, are they like open camps or with fortifications? "How is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes. So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, at Lebo-hamath.
What did they discover and what did they recommend to Moses? More in Part 18.