Deuteronomy 9:23

“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.”

“But as for you, only do not rebel against Yahweh; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread. Their protection has been removed from them, and Yahweh is with us; do not fear them.”

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

“Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God;

“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Sons in whom is no faithfulness.

Because they did not believe in God And did not trust in His salvation.

Then they despised the pleasant land; They did not believe in His word,