² Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,

¹² So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.

⁴ And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.

⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;

⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;

⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;

¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;

¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;

¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;

¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

² Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.

¹⁸ And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.

²³ And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

¹ And he got together his twelve disciples and gave them the power of driving out unclean spirits, and of making well all sorts of disease and pain.

² Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew, the tax-farmer; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

⁴ Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria,