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Numbers 13:3

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And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
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  1. Numbers 12:16Rank 1 from verse 3
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    16And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

  2. Numbers 32:8Rank 2 from verse 3
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    8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

  3. Deuteronomy 1:19Rank 3 from verse 3
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    19¶ And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

  4. Deuteronomy 9:23Rank 4 from verse 3
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    23Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

  5. Deuteronomy 1:23Rank 5 from verse 3
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    23And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

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Numbers 13:3

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commandment

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Sense 1: An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed. Sense 2: One of the ten commandments.

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wilderness

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Uncultivated, desolate, sparsely inhabited, or uninhabited land; a desert, wild country, or solitary region.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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2Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

3And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

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4And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

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