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“Send spies into the land of Canaan—the land I am giving to Israel; send one leader from each tribe.”

3-15 (The Israelis were camped in the wilderness of Paran at the time.) Moses did as the Lord had commanded and sent these twelve tribal leaders:

Shammua, son of Zaccur, from the tribe of Reuben;

Shaphat, son of Hori, from the tribe of Simeon;

Caleb, son of Jephunneh, from the tribe of Judah;

Igal, son of Joseph, from the tribe of Issachar;

Hoshea,[a] son of Nun, from the half-tribe of Ephraim;

Palti, son of Raphu, from the tribe of Benjamin;

Gaddiel, son of Sodi, from the tribe of Zebulun;

Gaddi, son of Susi, from the tribe of Joseph (actually, the half-tribe of Manasseh);

Ammiel, son of Gemalli, from the tribe of Dan;

Sethur, son of Michael, from the tribe of Asher;

Nahbi, son of Vophsi, from the tribe of Naphtali;

Geuel, son of Machi, from the tribe of Gad.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:3 Hoshea, or “Joshua.” See v. 16.

“Send some men to explore(A) the land of Canaan,(B) which I am giving to the Israelites.(C) From each ancestral tribe(D) send one of its leaders.”

So at the Lord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.(E) These are their names:

from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;

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