And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will you be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God has given you?

Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.

Take men from the people, one of each tribe,

And with you there shall be each one of the rulers according to the tribe of each: they shall be according to the houses of their families.

Send for you men, and let them spy the land of the Canaanites, which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession; one man for a tribe, you shall send them away according to their families, everyone of them a prince.

And divide the land into seven parts, and bring its description here to me, and I will give you a lot before the Lord our God.

And they went, and explored the land. And they viewed it, and described it according to the cities, seven parts in a book, and brought [the book] to Joshua.