Deuteronomy 1:23

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 ye all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them go up to the land for us; and let them bring back to us a report of the way by which we shall go up, and of the cities into which we shall enter.

24And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the Valley of the Cluster, and surveyed it.

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Cross References

Numbers 13:3And Moses sent them out of the wilderness of Paran by the word of the Lord; all these were the princes of the sons of Israel.

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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