Joshua 18:4 - King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

⁴ Give from among you three men of a tribe, and I shall send them. And they shall go up and down through the land, and map it according to their inheritance; and then come 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.

Joshua 18:4 Cross References

Micah 2:5

So there shall not be for you one measuring a line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

Numbers 1:4

And there shall be a man of every tribe with you, every one head of his father’s house.

Numbers 13:2

Send men for you, and they shall spy out the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel; you shall send one man for the tribe of his fathers, one man, every one a leader among them.

Joshua 18:3

And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Until when will you fail to go in to possess the land which He, Jehovah the God of your fathers, has given to you?

Joshua 18:5

And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall stay within their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay within their border on the north.

Joshua 18:6

And you shall map the land in seven parts, and shall bring it to me here. And I shall cast a lot for you here before Jehovah our God.

Joshua 18:9

And the men passed through the land, and mapped it by cities into seven parts, in a book. And they came to Joshua, to the camp at Shiloh.

Joshua 3:12

And now, take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Joshua 4:2

Take twelve men for you out of the people, one man of each tribe.