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Numbers 13:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. "
Numbers 13:23
Verse in Context
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21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23 They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
25 They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
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Numbers 13:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"
Numbers 13:2
"“Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them.”"
Numbers 13:3
"Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD. All of them were men who were heads of the children of Israel."
Numbers 13:4
"These were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur."
Numbers 13:5
"Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori."
Numbers 13:6
"Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh."
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