Joshua 18:4 - The Scriptures 1998

“Appoint three men from each tribe, and let me send them out to go through the land and describe it according to their inheritance, and come back to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them to go through the land and write a description of it according to their [tribal] inheritances; then they shall return to me.

American Standard Version (1901)

Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

Common English Bible

Pick out three men for each tribe. I will send them out, and they will go up and travel throughout the land. They will write a description of it as the basis for determining their legacy. Then they will come back to me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Select three men from each tribe, so that I may send them, and they may go forth and circle through the land, and may describe it according to the number of each multitude, and may bring back to me what they have written down.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.

Joshua 18:4 Cross References

Micah 2:5

“Therefore you shall have no one in the assembly of יהוה  to divide the land by lot.

Numbers 1:4

“And a man from every tribe should be with you, each one the head of his father’s house.

Numbers 13:2

“Send men to spy out the land of Kenaʽ

Joshua 18:3

So Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra’ĕ

Joshua 18:5

“And they shall divide it into seven portions – Yehuḏ

Joshua 18:6

and you shall describe the land in seven portions, and shall bring it to me. Then I shall cast lots for you here before יהוה  our Elohim.

Joshua 18:9

So the men went, and passed through the land, and described it in a book in seven portions by cities. And they came to Yehoshua at the camp in Shiloh.

Joshua 3:12

“And now, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Yisra’ĕ

Joshua 4:2

“Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe,