¹⁷ When Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, he told them, ‘Go up this way to the Negev, then go up into the hill country.

Spies Sent to Jericho

2 Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies^(A) from the Acacia Grove,^[a] saying, ‘Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.’ So they left, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab,^(B) and stayed there.