Discovery BoxNumbers 13:17 
ContextThe Spies’ Instructions
13:17 When Moses sent 1 them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev, 2 and then go up into the hill country
Numbers 33:40
Context33:40 The king of Arad, the Canaanite king who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard about the approach of the Israelites.
Numbers 34:29
Context34:29 These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 35:14
Context35:14 “You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.
1 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the next verb of the same formation to express a temporal clause.
2 tn The instructions had them first go up into the southern desert of the land, and after passing through that, into the hill country of the Canaanites. The text could be rendered “into the Negev” as well as “through the Negev.”
