Deuteronomy 1:23
21 See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
22 Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
24 They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.
25 They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
- KJV
- And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
- WEB
- The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
- ASV
- And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
- DARBY
- And the matter was good in mine eyes; and I took twelve men of you, one man for a tribe.
- BLB
- And the plan was good in my eyes, and I took from among you⁺ twelve men, one man per tribe.
- ÅB
- Dette syntes jeg godt om, og jeg tok ut blant dere tolv menn, én mann for hver stamme.
- OTB
- Planen virket god for meg, så jeg valgte ut tolv av dere, en mann for hver stamme.
- B1930
- Dette syntes jeg godt om, og jeg tok ut blandt eder tolv menn, én mann for hver stamme.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 13:3–33
So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,
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