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The Reports of the Spies

Numbers 13:25

In 11 translations

BSB
After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
KJV
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.
WEB
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
ASV
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
LSV
And they return from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
YLT
And they turn back from spying the land at the end of forty days.
DBY
And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.
DRC13:26
And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,
GNV13:26
Then after fourtie dayes, they turned againe from searching of the land.
JPS
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
LXXE
And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ מִתּ֣וּר הָאָ֑רֶץ מִקֵּ֖ץ אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יֽוֹם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀπέστρεψαν ἐκεῖθεν κατασκεψάμενοι τὴν γῆν μετὰ τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 34:28So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
  • Exodus 24:18Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  • Numbers 14:33–34Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. In keeping with the forty days you spied out the…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 13:26 in some Bibles
  • 13:25 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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