Deuteronomy 1:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ The plan seemed good to me, and I selected twelve of you, one from each tribe.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ The thing pleased me well, and I took twelve men of you, one for each tribe.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

Common English Bible

²³ This idea seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men, one from each tribe.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ 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

²³ 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 spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 32:8

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

Deuteronomy 1:22

“All of you came to me and said, ‘Let us send men ahead of us to explore the land for us and bring back a report to us regarding the route by which we should go up and the cities we will come to.’

Deuteronomy 1:24

They set out and went up into the hill country, and when they reached the Wadi Eshcol they spied it out