three
Joshua 18:3
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
Joshua 3:12
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Joshua 4:2
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
Numbers 1:4
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
Numbers 13:2
Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
describe
Joshua 18:6
Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
Joshua 18:9
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.