Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.
So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,
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.
So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,
Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”
And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
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