Verse Nu13-17 describing Moses instructions to the spies states:
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them:
'Get you up here into the South, and go up to the Mount;
Verse Nu13-21 describing the actual journey of the spies states that
they went up, and spied out the land from the TZin desert unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath.
Rashi comments:
- They traveled like the shape of the letter L
- They started in the SouthEast at the lower right tip of the L
- They journeyed on the L bottom along the south to the left tip of the L
in the southwest
- They then journeyed vertically upwards on the L to the NorthWest
The diagram below illustrates this diagrmatic Rashi as well as supply
scriptural references for the various underlined places mentioned in the above
two verses describing their journey.
|NW Mount Mount, Chamath (Nu34-07:08)
^
|
|
^
|
|
|
^ START
-------<---------------<-----------<-------------
SW Mediterranean (Nu34-05) SE Tzin Desert (Nu34-03)
|