Numbers 13:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So Moses by the command of the Lord sent scouts from the Wilderness of Paran, all of them men who were heads of the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Common English Bible

³ So Moses sent them out from the Paran desert according to the LORD’s command. All the men were leaders among the Israelites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ "Send men, who may examine the land of Canaan, which I will give to the sons of Israel, one from the rulers of each tribe."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel: one of every tribe, of the rulers.

Numbers 13:3 Cross References

Numbers 10:12

and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 12:16

After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

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.”

Numbers 13:26

And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 13:4

And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammu-a the son of Zaccur;

Numbers 32:8

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

Numbers 34:17

“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 1:19

“And we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Deuteronomy 1:23

The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men of you, one man for each tribe;

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him or obey his voice.

1 Samuel 25:1

Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.