Deuteronomy 1:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The thing pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one for each tribe.

American Standard Version (1901)

And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

Common English Bible

This idea seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men, one from each tribe.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe,

Deuteronomy 1:23 Cross References

Numbers 13:1

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 32:8

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Deuteronomy 1:22

Then all of you came near me, and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’

Deuteronomy 1:24

and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.