Numbers 13:17
What does Numbers 13:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 13:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And 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:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And 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:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So 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;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Moses sendeth them to spy the land of Canaan, and saith unto them, `Go ye up this <FI>way<Fi> into the south, and ye have gone up the mountain,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent to view the land: and he called Osee the son of Nun, Josue.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And 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,
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 13:29
Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.
- Numbers 14:40
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.
- 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 Jehovah was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
- Joshua 15:3
and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;
- Genesis 14:10
Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.
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