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The Spies Explore Canaan

Numbers 13:18

In 11 translations

BSB
See what the land is like and whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.
KJV
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
WEB
See the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
ASV
and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
LSV
and have seen the land, what it [is], and the people which is dwelling on it, whether it [is] strong or feeble, [and] whether it [is] few or many;
YLT
and have seen the land what it [is], and the people which is dwelling on it, whether it [is] strong or feeble; whether it [is] few or many;
DBY
and ye shall see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell in it, whether they are strong or weak, few or many;
DRC13:19
View the land, of what sort it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:
GNV13:19
And consider the land what it is, and the people that dwel therein, whether they be strong or weake, either fewe or many,
JPS
and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
LXXE
and ye shall see the land, what it is, and the people that dwells on it, whether it is strong or weak, or whether they are few or many.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וּרְאִיתֶ֥ם אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ מַה־הִ֑וא וְאֶת־הָעָם֙ הַיֹּשֵׁ֣ב עָלֶ֔יהָ הֶחָזָ֥ק הוּא֙ הֲרָפֶ֔ה הַמְעַ֥ט ה֖וּא אִם־רָֽב׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ὄψεσθε τὴν γῆν τίς ἐστι, καὶ τὸν λαὸν τὸν ἐγκαθήμενον ἐπʼ αὐτῆς, εἰ ἰσχυρός ἐστιν ἢ ἀσθενὴς, ἢ ὀλίγοι εἰσὶν ἢ πολλοί.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 34:14I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
  • Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites,…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 13:19 in some Bibles
  • 13:18 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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