²³ And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (^(A)Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)

¹⁹ He called the name of that place ^(A)Bethel,^[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

³ And Jacob said to Joseph, ^(A)“God Almighty^[a] appeared to me at ^(B)Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

⁶ And Jacob came to ^(A)Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

² So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, ^(A)from Zorah and from Eshtaol, ^(B)to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came ^(C)to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

² Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near ^(A)Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

Rahab Hides the Spies

2 And Joshua the son of Nun ^(A)sent^[a] two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of ^(B)a prostitute whose name was ^(C)Rahab and lodged there.