⁴ Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.

⁴ With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.

² Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.

¹² Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

² Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

³ Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

⁶ You shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring [the description] here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

⁹ The men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.