◄ Joshua 18:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Let me have three men from each tribe. I will send them out over the whole country to map out the territory that they would like to have as their possession. Then they are to come back to me.

New Revised Standard Version
Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may begin to go throughout the land, writing a description of it with a view to their inheritances. Then come back to me.

New American Bible
Choose three representatives from each of your tribes; I will send them to go throughout the land and describe it for purposes of acquiring their heritage. When they return to me

Douay-Rheims Bible
Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.

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Joshua 18:3 And Joshua said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you?

Joshua 3:12 Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.

Joshua 4:2 Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

Numbers 1:4 And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,

Numbers 13:2 Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.

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Joshua 18:6,9 The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts; and you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before the Lord your God. . . .

Context
The Remainder Divided
…3And Joshua said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you? 4Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.5Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.…
Cross References
Joshua 18:3
And Joshua said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you?

Joshua 18:5
Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.

Micah 2:5
In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Joshua 18:3
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