Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
Numbers 13:17 in other translations
| BSB | When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country. |
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| WEB | Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country. |
| ASV | And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: |
| YLT | And Moses sendeth them to spy the land of Canaan, and saith unto them, ‘Go ye up this way into the south, and ye have gone up the mountain, |
| DARBY | And Moses sent them to search out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the south and go up into the hill-country, |
| BBE | So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country; |
| Webster | And Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go ye up this way southward, and ascend the mountain: |
What does Numbers 13:17 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 13:1-20
A memorable and melancholy history is related in this and the following chapter, of the turning back of Israel from the borders of Canaan, and the sentencing them to wander and perish in the wilderness, for their unbelief and murmuring. It appears, De 1:22, that the motion to search out the land came from the people. They had a better opinion of their own policy than of God's wisdom. Thus we ruin ourselves by…
Numbers 13:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 13:17
- Judges 1:9
And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
- Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
- Judges 1:15
And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
- Joshua 15:3
And it went out to the south side to Maaleh–acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh–barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
- Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
- Judges 1:19
And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
- Numbers 13:29
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
- Deuteronomy 1:44
And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
- Numbers 14:40
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.
- Numbers 13:21-22
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
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Context
- Numbers 13:16
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
- Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
- Numbers 13:18
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
Numbers 13:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estos son los nombres de los varones que Moisés envió á reconocer la tierra: y á Oseas hijo de Nun, le puso Moisés el nombre de Josué. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Moïse les envoya pour reconnaître le pays de Canaan, et leur dit: Montez de ce côté, par le midi; et vous monterez dans la montagne; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Mose sandte sie, um das Land Kanaan auszukundschaften, und sprach zu ihnen: Ziehet hier hinauf an der Südseite, und steiget auf das Gebirge, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hæc sunt nomina virorum, quos misit Moyses ad considerandam terram: vocavitque Osee filium Nun, Josue. |