Numbers 13:25

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

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 They came to the valley of Eshkol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

24 That place was called the valley of Eshkol, because of the cluster which the children of Yisra'el cut down from there.

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

26 They went and came to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and shown them the fruit of the land.

27 They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.