Numbers 13:3

3 (13-4) Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, 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 (13-2) And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.

2 (13-3) Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.

3 (13-4) Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

4 (13-5) Of the tribe of Ruben, Sammua the son of Zechur.

5 (13-6) Of the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Huri.