Neville Goddard on Numbers 13:3-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 13 in context

Scripture Focus

3And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

4And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

5Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

6Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

7Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.

9Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

10Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.

11Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

12Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

13Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

14Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

15Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

Numbers 13:3-16

Biblical Context

Moses, by the LORD's command, sends twelve tribal leaders to spy out the land; their names enumerate the tribes and mark an inner survey of the land within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your imagination is the wilderness; the land you seek is the inner kingdom of your consciousness. The twelve spies are the twelve facets of your mind—desire and memory, courage and doubt, faith and fear—each called to survey the terrain of your awareness. Moses’s act of sending them is the I AM within you giving permission to explore your inner landscape. Oshea’s renaming to Jehoshua signals that the inner voice of victory arises when your will is aligned with God—the truth that you already possess the land as states of consciousness. The outward report mirrors your inner state: a tale of giants or of grapes reveals belief; a confident, grateful report reveals a sense of completion. Thus the journey is not to find some distant place, but to revise your inner assumption until it reflects what you truly are: one who dwells in the promised land.