Numbers 13:25 “After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,”

Numbers 13:25

After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

World English Bible

They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

American Standard Version

And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Geneva Bible 1599

That place was called the riuer Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes, which the children of Israel cut downe thence.

Darby Translation

And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.

Young's Literal Translation

And they turn back from spying the land at the end of forty days.

Bible in Basic English

At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.

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Cross references

“forty days”

Exodus 34:28 Exodus 24:18 Numbers 14:33 Numbers 14:34

Exodus 34:28 · BSB

So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 24:18 · BSB

Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Numbers 14:33 · BSB

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:34 · BSB

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

26and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

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