23The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:


In Context

20 I said to you, |You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which Yahweh our God gives to us.

21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.|

22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, |Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.|

23 The thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

24 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

25 They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, |It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.|

Deuteronomy 1:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:23and the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:23The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:23And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:23And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:23And the matter was good in mine eyes; and I took twelve men of you, one man for a tribe.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:23And the thing pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:23And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:23and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:23And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: