Deuteronomy 1:23

And since the word was pleasing to me, I sent from among you twelve men, one from each tribe.

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In The King James Version

and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

In Context

22And you all approached me and said: ‘Let us send men who may consider the land, and who may report as to the way by which we ought to ascend, and as to which cities we ought to travel.’

24These, when they had set out and had ascended the mountains, arrived as far as the valley of the cluster of grapes. And having considered the land,

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Cross References

Numbers 13:3“Send men, who may examine the land of Canaan, which I will give to the sons of Israel, one from the rulers of each tribe.”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:20-46

Israel's Sin at Kadesh. ( b. c. 1451.) 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be… Read the whole commentary →

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