When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites,[a] which He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey,(A) you must carry out this ritual in this month.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:5 DSS, Sam, LXX, Syr add Girgashites and Perizzites; Jos 3:10

23 When they came to the Valley of Eshcol,(A) 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.(B) 24 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol[a] because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there. 25 At the end of 40 days(C) they returned from scouting out the land.

Report about Canaan

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

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 13:24 = cluster

a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

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