Joshua 18:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ So each of your family groups should choose three men. I will send those men out to study the land. They will describe that land, and then they will come back to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

So we will not be able\par to measure the land\par and divide it among the Lord’s people.’”\par

Numbers 1:4

One man from each and every family group {will help you}. This man will be the leader of his family group.

Numbers 13:2

“Send some men to explore the land of Canaan. This is the land that I will give to the people of Israel. Send one leader from each of the twelve family groups.”

Joshua 18:3

So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “Why do you wait so long to take your land? The Lord, the God of your fathers, has given this land to you.

Joshua 18:5

They will divide the land into seven parts. The people of Judah will keep their land in the south. The people of Joseph will keep their land in the north.

Joshua 18:6

But you should describe the land and divide it into seven parts. Bring the map to me, and we will let the Lord our God decide which family group will get which land. [64]

Joshua 18:9

So the men went into the land. The men went all through the land and wrote a description of it for Joshua. They listed all the cities and divided the land into seven parts. Then they went back to Joshua at Shiloh.

Joshua 3:12

Now, choose twelve men. Choose one man from each of the twelve family groups of Israel.

Joshua 4:2

“Choose twelve men. Choose one man from each family group.