Numbers 13:25

25 At the end of 40 days^[a] they returned from scouting out the land.

Numbers 13:25 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 13:25

And they returned from searching the land after forty days.
] The Targum of Jonathan adds, on the eighth day of the month Ab, which answers to part of July and part of August; so that this must be towards the latter end of July: some Jewish writers ^F11 say it was the ninth of Ab; hence the tradition, that it was decreed on the ninth of Ab concerning their fathers, that they should not enter into the land {l}.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24.
F12 Misn. Taanith, c. 4. sect. 7.

Numbers 13:25 In-Context

23 When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which was carried on a pole by two men. [They] also [took] some pomegranates and figs.

24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol because of the cluster [of grapes] the Israelites cut there.

25 At the end of 40 days they returned from scouting out the land.

26 The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

27 They reported to Moses: "We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 14:33-34; 32:13; Ps 95:10