the Third Week after Easter
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اعداد 13:25
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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.
