Numbers 13:25
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New International Version (©2011)
At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.

New Living Translation (©2007)
After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned

English Standard Version (©2001)
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
At the end of 40 days they returned from scouting out the land.

International Standard Version (©2012)
At the end of 40 days, they all returned from exploring the land,

NET Bible (©2006)
They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Forty days later, they came back from exploring the land.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.

English Revised Version
And 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:21-25 The searchers of the land brought a bunch of grapes with them, and other fruits, as proofs of the goodness of the country; which was to Israel both the earnest and the specimen of all the fruits of Canaan. Such are the present comforts we have in communion with God, foretastes of the fulness of joy we expect in the heavenly Canaan. We may see by them what heaven is.

Pulpit Commentary

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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The Reports of the Spies
25And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. 26And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27And they told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. …

Numbers 13:24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.
Numbers 13:26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 14:34 For forty years--one year for each of the forty days you explored the land--you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.'