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Numbers 13:23 Explained in Context
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Verse 23. 23And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 13:23 within “The Scouts Traverse the Land and Return with Fruit,” states this boundary, request, response, or travel consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Read It With
- Numbers 13:21–25
Read Numbers 13:23 with 13:21–25. It within “The Scouts Traverse the Land and Return with Fruit,” states this boundary, request, response, or travel consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The scouts range from Zin to Rehob, visit Hebron and the Anak descendants, cut a grape cluster carried on a pole with pomegranates and figs, name Eshcol, and return after forty days.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 13:23 within “The Scouts Traverse the Land and Return with Fruit,” states this boundary, request, response, or travel consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: they came to the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. Its responsible force depends on 13:21–25; isolated from “The Scouts Traverse the Land and Return with Fruit,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 13:21–25 — The Scouts Traverse the Land and Return with FruitSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 13:21–25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 13:21–25
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