Numbers 13:25

Easy-to-Read Version

The men explored that country for 40 days, and then they went back to the camp.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

King James Version
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

Lexham English Bible
They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days.

New Century Version
After forty days of exploring the land, the men returned to the camp.

New English Translation
They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

Amplified Bible
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

New American Standard Bible
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then after fourtie dayes, they turned againe from searching of the land.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

Contemporary English Version
After exploring the land of Canaan forty days,

Complete Jewish Bible
Forty days later, they returned from reconnoitering the land

Darby Translation
And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.

English Standard Version
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

George Lamsa Translation
And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
At the end of forty days they returned from scouting out the land.

Literal Translation
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan they had spyed out the lande, they turned bake againe after fourtye daies,

American Standard Version
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Bible in Basic English
At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they turned backe agayne from searching of ye lande after fourtie dayes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

King James Version (1611)
And they returned from searching of the land after fourty dayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

English Revised Version
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Berean Standard Bible
After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the aspieris of the lond, whanne thei hadden cumpassid al the cuntrey, after fourti daies camen to Moises and Aaron,

Young's Literal Translation
And they turn back from spying the land at the end of forty days.

Update Bible Version
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they returned from exploring the land after forty days.

World English Bible
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

New King James Version
And they returned from spying out the land after forty days.

New Living Translation
After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned

New Life Bible
They returned from looking over the land after forty days.

New Revised Standard
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they returned from spying out the land, - at the end of forty days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(13-26) And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

Revised Standard Version
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

Contextual Overview

²¹ So they went to explore the country. They explored the area from the desert of Zin to Rehob and Lebo Hamath. ²² They entered the country through the Negev and went to Hebron. (The town of Hebron was built seven years before the town of Zoan in Egypt.) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived there. These men were descendants of Anak. ²³ Then the men went to Eshcol Valley. There they cut off a branch from a grapevine that had a bunch of grapes on it. They put that branch on a pole, and two men carried it between them. They also carried some pomegranates and figs. ²⁴ That place is called the Eshcol Valley, because there the men of Israel cut off the bunch of grapes. ²⁵ The men explored that country for 40 days, and then they went back to the camp.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forty days: Numbers 14:33, Numbers 14:34, Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they returned from searching the land after forty days. The Targum of Jonathan adds, on the eighth day of the month Ab, which answers to part of July and part of August; so that this must be towards the latter end of July: some Jewish writers k say it was the ninth of Ab; hence the tradition, that it was decreed on the ninth of Ab concerning their fathers, that they should not enter into the land l.

k Seder Olam Rabba, c. 8. p. 24. l Misn. Taanith, c. 4. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After forty days - They had no doubt in this time explored the whole land. However, it was with the southern part that the Israelites expected to have to deal immediately: and accordingly it is that which is particularly referred to in the following verses, Hebron and its vicinity above all.