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When Moses had said thus, the multitude requited him with marks of
respect; and chose twelve spies, of the most eminent men, one out of each
tribe, who, passing over all the land of Canaan, from the borders of Egypt,
came to the city Hamath, and to Mount Lebanon; and having learned the nature
of the land, and of its inhabitants, they came home, having spent forty
days in the whole work. They also brought with them of the fruits which
the land bare; they also showed them the excellency of those fruits, and
gave an account of the great quantity of the good things that land afforded,
which were motives to the multitude to go to war. But then they terrified
them again with the great difficulty there was in obtaining it; that the
rivers were so large and deep that they could not be passed over; and that
the hills were so high that they could not travel along for them; that
the cities were strong with walls, and their firm fortifications round
about them. They told them also, that they found at Hebron the posterity
of the giants. Accordingly these spies, who had seen the land of Canaan,
when they perceived that all these difficulties were greater there than
they had met with since they came out of Egypt, they were aftrighted at
them themselves, and endeavored to affright the multitude also.
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