Numbers 13:25

13:25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

Numbers 13:2

13:2 “Send out men to investigate ¹  the land of Canaan, which I am giving ²  to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, ³  each one a leader among them.”

Numbers 36:1

Women and Land Inheritance

36:1 Then the heads of the family groups ⁴  of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses ⁵  and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families. ⁶ 

[13:2]  ¹ tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.”

[13:2]  ² tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.”

[13:2]  ³ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”

[36:1]  ⁴ tn The expression is “the heads of the fathers by the family of the Gileadites.”

[36:1]  ⁵ tn The Greek and the Syriac add “and before Eleazar the priest.”

[36:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “heads of the fathers.”