Numbers 13:3

Send for you men, and let them spy the land of the Chananites, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, you shall send them away according to their families, every one of them a prince.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

2And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

4And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Pharan by the word of the Lord; all these were the princes of the sons of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:12And the children of Israel set forward with their baggage in the wilderness of Sina; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan.

Numbers 13:26And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

Numbers 34:17These are the names of the men who shall + 34:17 Gr. inherit the land for you. divide the land to you for an inheritance; Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Naue.

Deuteronomy 1:23And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men, one man of a 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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