Numbers 13:25

The Spies Return

25 They returned from exploring 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 And they came up to the valley of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on [a] pole between two [men], [with] pomegranates and figs.

24 That place he called the valley of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the {Israelites} cut off from there.

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

26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the {Israelites} in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and [to] all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

27 And they told him, "We came to the land that you sent us, and it [is] flowing of milk and honey; this [is] its fruit.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "day"