Joshua 18:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land, writing a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.

More versions

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

Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Numbers 1:4

And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.

Numbers 13:2

“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.”

Joshua 18:3

So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you be slack to go in and take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Joshua 18:5

They shall divide it into seven portions, Judah continuing in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph in their territory on the north.

Joshua 18:6

And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Joshua 18:9

So the men went and passed up and down in the land and set down in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions; then they came to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh,

Joshua 3:12

Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.

Joshua 4:2

“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,