Numbers 13:3

And Moses sent them out from the wilderness of Paran by the order of the Lord: they all were men, [who] were heads of the children of Israel.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Send thou out some men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: one man each of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send, every one who is a prince among them.

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

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Cross References

Numbers 10:12And the children of Israel set forward on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud halted in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:26And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and they brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 34:17These are the names of the men who shall parcel out unto you the land: Elazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:23And the thing was pleasing in my eyes; and I took of you twelve men, one man for every tribe:

Matthew Henry on Numbers 13:2-21

Missions of the Twelve Spies. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat… Read the whole commentary →

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