Numbers 13:24
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
Numbers 13:24 in other translations
| BSB | Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol. |
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| WEB | That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there. |
| ASV | That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence. |
| YLT | That place hath one called Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from thence. |
| DARBY | That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the grapes which the children of Israel had cut down there. |
| BBE | That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there. |
| Webster | The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. |
What does Numbers 13:24 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 13:21-24
21-24. So they ... searched the land--They advanced from south to north, reconnoitering the whole land. the wilderness of Zin--a long level plain, or deep valley of sand, the monotony of which is relieved by a few tamarisk and rethem trees. Under the names of El Ghor and El Araba, it forms the continuation of the Jordan valley, extending from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba. Rehob--or, Beth-rehob, was a city and…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 13:21-25
The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan. Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.
Numbers 13:24 in the original Hebrew
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Eshcol. that is a cluster of grapes.
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Context
- Numbers 13:23
And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 13:24
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Numbers 13:25
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
Numbers 13:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y llegaron hasta el arroyo de Escol, y de allí cortaron un sarmiento con un racimo de uvas, el cual trajeron dos en un palo, y de las granadas y de los higos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | On appela ce lieu-là torrent d’Eshcol, à cause de la grappe que les fils d’Israël y coupèrent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jenen Ort nannte man Tal Eskol wegen der Traube, welche die Kinder Israel daselbst abgeschnitten hatten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pergentesque usque ad Torrentem botri, absciderunt palmitem cum uva sua, quem portaverunt in vecte duo viri. De malis quoque granatis et de ficis loci illius tulerunt: |