Numbers 13:25
New International Version
At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

NASB 1977
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

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

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
At the end of 40 days they returned from scouting out the land.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they returned from the exploring of the land after forty days.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.

Contemporary English Version
After exploring the land of Canaan for 40 days,

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Forty days later, they came back from exploring the land.

Good News Translation
After exploring the land for forty days, the spies returned

International Standard Version
At the end of 40 days, they all returned from exploring the land,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

Literal Standard Version
And they return from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

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

New American Bible
They returned from reconnoitering the land forty days later.

NET Bible
They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

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

New Heart English Bible
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.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Reports of the Spies
25After forty days the men returned from spying out the land, 26and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.…

Cross References
Numbers 13:24
Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.

Numbers 13:26
and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Numbers 14:34
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years--a year for each day--and you will experience My alienation.


Treasury of Scripture

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

forty days

Numbers 14:33,34
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness…

Exodus 24:18
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

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(25) After forty days.--This time allowed a full and careful exploration of the land.

Verse 25. - They returned... after forty days. This is a period of time which constantly recurs in the sacred books (see on Exodus 24:18). It points to the fact that their work was completely done, and the land thoroughly explored.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
After
מִקֵּ֖ץ (miq·qêṣ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7093: An extremity, after

forty
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

days
יֽוֹם׃ (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

[the men] returned
וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ (way·yā·šu·ḇū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

from spying out
מִתּ֣וּר (mit·tūr)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8446: To meander, about, for, trade, reconnoitring

the land,
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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