Joshua 18:4
Provide for yourselves three men from each tribe so that I may send them, and that they may go through the land and write a description of it with regard to their [tribal] inheritance; then they shall return to me.
Numbers 1:4
And with you there shall be a man [to assist you] from each tribe, each being the head of his father’s household.
Numbers 13:2
“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel. From each of their fathers’ tribes you shall send a man, every one a leader among them.”
Joshua 3:12
So now take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe.
Joshua 4:2
“Take for yourselves the twelve men [chosen] from among the people, one man from each tribe,
Joshua 18:3
So Joshua asked them, “How long will you put off entering to take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
Joshua 18:6
You shall describe the land in seven divisions, and bring the description here to me. I will cast lots for you here
Joshua 18:9
So the men set out and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came back to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.