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NOT VERY WELL, THE WAY I REMEMBER IT.

Why not?

A TEN-TO-TWO MAJORITY WERE AFRAID TO TAKE CANAAN, AND YOU LET THEIR VIEW PREVAIL.

And they were wrong?

YES.

That generation – did they experience the good life in Canaan?

JUST THE TWO WHO HAD BEEN IN THE MINORITY.

The faithful?

I HADN’T THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY, BUT YES.

We proceeded with the two plus our next generation into the next phase of our production.  I rest my case.¹²²

I DON’T KNOW IF MY BOSSES AT THE MAGAZINE WILL WANT TO PUBLISH THIS.  THEY DO HAVE A WHOLE LOT RIDING ON THAT OTHER SCENARIO.

Whatever.  We’ll get the word out.  Don’t assume that Abram was the first one I asked to leave Haran for Canaan.  He was the first to obey, that’s all.¹²³  That’s all.

122           “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them. . . . And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. . . . Then Caleb . . . said, ‘Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.’  But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We are not able . . .’ and they gave . . . a bad report . . . saying, ‘The land . . . devours its inhabitants . . .’” (Numbers 13:2, 25, 30-31a, 32).  “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept (and complained) that night.  . . . But Joshua (and Caleb said), ‘The land . . . is an exceedingly good land . . . (and) the Lord . . . will bring us into this land and give it to us . . .“The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ‘. . . The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness . . . except for Caleb . . . and Joshua . . . (and) your little ones . . . (whom) I will bring in . . .’” (Numbers 14:1, 6a, 7, 8a, 26, 29a, 30a, 31a).

123           “And Terah took his son, Abram (and company) . . . and they came to Haran and dwelt there. . . . and Terah died in Haran” (Genesis 11:31, 32b). “Now the Lord had said to Abram:  ‘Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.’  . . . So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him . . .” (Genesis 12:1a, 4a).