Deuteronomy 1:23
World English Bible (WEB)
The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
In context
21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD 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’s send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring back to us word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come.”
23 The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
24 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.
25 They took some 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 the LORD our God gives to us.”
Deuteronomy 1:23 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The thing pleased me well. I took twelve of your men, one man for every tribe.
- KJV King James Version
- And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and the thing is good in mine eyes, and I take of you twelve men, one man for a tribe.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the matter was good in mine eyes; and I took twelve men of you, one man for a tribe.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: