Numbers 13:25
They returned from investigating the land after forty days.
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- Exod 24:18 : 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Exod 34:28 : 28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Num 14:33-34 : 33 and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
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- Num 13:26-272 verses85%
26The Spies’ Reports They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
27They told Moses,“We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
- Deut 1:22-254 verses82%
22So all of you approached me and said,“Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”
23I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
24They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, which they scouted out.
25Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”
- Num 13:17-248 verses78%
17The Spies’ Instructions When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them,“Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country
18and see what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, few or many,
19and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,
20and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year for the first ripe grapes.
21The Spies’ Activities So they went up and investigated the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.
22When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living.(Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
23When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.
24That place was called the Eshcol Valley, because of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut from there.
- Num 32:8-92 verses75%
8Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the LORD had given them.
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7They said to the whole community of the Israelites,“The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.
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34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
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8They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem.
- Josh 2:22-232 verses71%
22They went to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them to return. Their pursuers looked all along the way but did not find them.
23Then the two men returned– they came down from the hills, crossed the river, came to Joshua son of Nun, and reported to him all they had discovered.
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18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
- Num 14:36-394 verses71%
36The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,
37those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
38But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.
39When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.
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14Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.
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32Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying,“The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.
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32Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.
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35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
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7I was forty years old when Moses, the LORD’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report.
- Num 13:1-33 verses70%
1Spies Sent Out The LORD spoke to Moses:
2“Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them.”
3So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
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7Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.
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2Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.
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1The Provision of Manna When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.
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43Then Joshua and all Israel returned to the camp at Gilgal.
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15Then Joshua and all Israel returned to the camp at Gilgal.
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53When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they looted their camp.
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16When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.
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9The men journeyed through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
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9They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.
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19Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
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9So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, which they acquired by the LORD’s command through Moses.
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46Therefore, you remained at Kadesh for a long time– indeed, for the full time.