Numbers 13:3

3 And Moses at the commaundement of the Lorde sent forth out of the wildernesse of Pharan: soche men as were all herdes amonge the childern of Israel whose names are these.

Numbers 13:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 13:3

And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord
By his power, permission, and leave, as Jarchi, that there might be no delay through his means:

sent them from the wilderness of Paran;
from Rithmah or Kadeshbarnea, which seem to be one and the same place in that wilderness: this, as before observed, was on the twenty ninth day of Sivan: (See Gill on Numbers 13:1);

all those [were] heads of the children of Israel;
were not mean and vulgar men, but persons of rule, who bore some office of magistracy ant government among the people in their respective tribes.

Numbers 13:3 In-Context

1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses sayenge:

2 Sende men out to serche the londe of Canaan which I geue vnto the childern of Israel: of euery trybe of their fathers a man and let them all be soche as are melars amonge them.

3 And Moses at the commaundement of the Lorde sent forth out of the wildernesse of Pharan: soche men as were all herdes amonge the childern of Israel whose names are these.

4 In the trybe of Ruben Sammua ye sonne of Zacur:

5 In the trybe of Symeon Saphat the sonne of Hori.