Numbers 13:24
22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
23 When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.
Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
25 After forty days the men returned from spying out the land,
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
- KJV
- The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- WEB
- That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
- ASV
- That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- DARBY
- That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the grapes which the children of Israel had cut down there.
- BLB
- That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster that the men of Israel cut down there.
- ÅB
- Dette sted ble kalt Eskol-dalen[^1] etter den drueklase som Israels barn skar av der.
- OTB
- Det stedet ble kalt Eshkoldalen på grunn av drueklasen israelittene kuttet av der.
- B1930
- Dette sted blev kalt Eskol-dalen efter den drueklase som Israels barn skar av der. / < d.e. drueklasens dal.>