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Jos 18:4 — Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

three		Jos 18:3; Jos 3:12; Jos 4:2; Num 1:4; Num 13:2
describe		Jos 18:6,9

Correlating Passages

three

	Jos 18:3	And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long [are] ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
	Jos 3:12	Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
	Jos 4:2	Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
	Num 1:4	And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
	Num 13:2	Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

describe

	Jos 18:6	Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
	Jos 18:9	And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came [again] to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

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Scott, Thomas. "Joshua 18:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jos/18/4.html>.

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