16. And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;
17. ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;
18. and I command you, at that time, all the things which ye do.
19. `And we journey from Horeb, and go [through] all that great and fearful wilderness which ye have seen--the way of the hill-country of the Amorite, as Jehovah our God hath commanded us, and we come in unto Kadesh-Barnea.
20. `And I say unto you, Ye have come in unto the hill-country of the Amorite, which Jehovah our God is giving to us;
21. see, Jehovah thy God hath set before thee the land; go up, possess, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee; fear not, nor be affrighted.
22. `And ye come near unto me, all of you, and say, Let us send men before us, and they search for us the land, and they bring us back word [concerning] the way in which we go up into it, and the cities unto which we come in;
23. and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.
24. `And they turn and go up to the hill-country, and come in unto the valley of Eshcol, and spy it,