1. The Lord spoke to Moses:
2. “Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them.”
3. So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
4. Now these were their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
5. from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;