Numbers 13:3 {4}
New Revised Standard Version
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them leading men among the Israelites.

Contemporary English Version
So Moses sent twelve tribal leaders from Israel's camp in the Paran Desert

New American Bible
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, at the direction of the LORD. All of them were leaders among the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

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Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

The wilderness of Paran, says Dr.

Numbers 1:19 As the Lord had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.

, where, by 'that great and terrible wilderness,' is intended the wilderness of Paran in its largest acceptation; for, in its stricter acceptation, it seems not to have been so great and terrible a wilderness' but is taken to denote more peculiarly that part of Arabia Petraea which lies between mount Sinai and Hazeroth west, and mount Seir east.

Numbers 12:16 And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

Numbers 32:8 Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?

Deuteronomy 1:19,23 And departing from Horeb, we passed through the terrible and vast wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorrhite, as the Lord our God had commanded us. And when we were come into Cadesbarne, . . .

Deuteronomy 9:23 And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice:

Context
The Spies Explore Canaan
2Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers. 3Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:4Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.…
Cross References
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.

Numbers 13:4
Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.

Numbers 32:8
Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land?

1 Samuel 25:1
And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose, and went down into the wilderness of Pharan.

Numbers 13:2
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