Numbers 13:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Numbers 13:3 Cross References

Numbers 32:8

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

Numbers 12:16

And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

Deuteronomy 1:19

And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by 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

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

Numbers 13:2

Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince among them.

Numbers 13:4

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

1 Samuel 25:1

And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 10:12

And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:26

And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 34:17

These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.