New International Version

Numbers 13:1-5 New International Version (NIV)

1. The Lord said to Moses,

2. “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”

3. So at the Lord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

4. These are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;

5. from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;