Numbers 13:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up there into the Negeb, and go up into the hill country,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Moses sent them to scout out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get up this way by the South (the Negeb) and go up into the hill country,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:

Common English Bible

¹⁷ When Moses sent them out to explore the land of Canaan, he said to them, “Go up there into the arid southern plain and into the mountains.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to examine the land. And he called Hosea, the son of Nun, Joshua.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.

Numbers 13:17 Cross References

Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

Genesis 13:1

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

Genesis 13:17

Rise up, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”

Genesis 13:3

He journeyed on by stages from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 14:10

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.

Numbers 13:18

and see what the land is like and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,

Numbers 13:29

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites live in the hill country, and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Numbers 14:40

They rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place that the Lord has promised, for we have sinned.”

Deuteronomy 1:44

The Amorites who lived in that hill country then came out against you and chased you as bees do. They beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings; he left no one remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 15:3

it goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, makes a turn to Karka,

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Judges 1:15

She said to him, “Give me a blessing; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also Gulloth-mayim.” So Caleb gave her Upper Gulloth and Lower Gulloth.

Judges 1:19

The Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country but could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain, because they had chariots of iron.

Judges 1:9

Afterward the people of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.