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. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.

⁹ 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,

⁶ And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. ^(A)And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

³ So Joshua said to the people of Israel, ^(A)“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?

^2 (A)“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,

¹² Now therefore ^(A)take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, ^(B)from each tribe a man.

^2 (A)“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.”

⁴ And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.