4 Mose 13:25

Elberfelder Bibel

Und sie kehrten nach Verlauf von vierzig Tagen vom Auskundschaften des Landes zurück.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und nachdem sie das Land ausgekundschaftet hatten vierzig Tage lang,

Lutherbible (1912)
Und sie kehrten um, als sie das Land erkundet hatten, nach vierzig Tagen,

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.