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Numbers 13:24-26
New English Translation
Numbers 13:24-26
New English Translation
24 That place was called[a] the Eshcol Valley,[b] because of the cluster[c] of grapes that the Israelites cut from there. 25 They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
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26 They came back[d] to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh.[e] They reported[f] to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
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- Numbers 13:24 tn The verb is rendered as a passive because there is no expressed subject.
- Numbers 13:24 tn Or “Wadi Eshcol.” The translation “brook” is too generous; the Hebrew term refers to a river bed, a ravine or valley through which torrents of rain would rush in the rainy season; at other times it might be completely dry.
- Numbers 13:24 tn The word “Eshcol” is drawn from the Hebrew expression concerning the “cluster of grapes.” The word is probably retained in the name Burj Haskeh, two miles north of Damascus.
- Numbers 13:26 tn The construction literally has “and they went and they entered,” which may be smoothed out as a verbal hendiadys, the one verb modifying the other.
- Numbers 13:26 sn Kadesh is Ain Qadeis, about 50 miles (83 km) south of Beer Sheba. It is called Kadesh Barnea in Num 32:8.
- Numbers 13:26 tn Heb “They brought back word”; the verb is the Hiphil preterite of שׁוּב (shuv).
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