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Numbers 13:23

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.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    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.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a pole between two; they took also of the pomegranates, and of the figs. —

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Cross-references (4)

Passages linked to Numbers 13:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Numbers 13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
  • Numbers 32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
  • Deuteronomy 1:24-25 They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
  • Judges 16:4 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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Explain this verse (16 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Declaring the antiquity thereof: also Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and…

Declaring the antiquity thereof: also Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob were buried there.

Which were a kind of giants.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 13:23 And they came unto the brook of…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Upon a staff; either for the weight of it,…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south,....…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Upon a staff - Either for the weight of…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. They bare it between two upon a…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 13:23-24. Upon a staff — Either for the…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The brook of Eshcol is by some identified with…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain And came. The printed Hebrew has, "and he came:"…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain they came unto the brook of Eshcol--that is, "the…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. The brook of Eshcol — A wady near…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. a staff] Perhaps a bar; the same word…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) The brook of Eshcol.—This is commonly identified with…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The brook of Eshcol. Rather, "the valley of Eshcol,"…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 This is the name of a place. (See: How…

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