‏ Numbers 13:2

2“Send out men to investigate ▼
▼tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.”
the land of Canaan, which I am giving ▼
▼tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.”
to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, ▼
▼tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”
each one a leader among them.”
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