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22 As they went through the Southern Desert, they came to the town of Hebron, which was seven years older than the Egyptian town of Zoan. In Hebron, they saw the three Anakim[a] clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai. 23-24 When they got to Bunch Valley,[b] they cut off a branch with such a huge bunch of grapes, that it took two men to carry it on a pole. That's why the place was called Bunch Valley. Along with the grapes, they also took back pomegranates[c] and figs.

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Footnotes

  1. 13.22 Anakim: Perhaps a group of very large people (see Deuteronomy 2.10,11, 20,21).
  2. 13.23,24 Bunch Valley: Or “Eshcol Valley.”
  3. 13.23,24 pomegranates: A bright red fruit that looks like an apple.

22 They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron,(A) where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai,(B) the descendants of Anak,(C) lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)(D) 23 When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,[a](E) they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates(F) and figs.(G) 24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.

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  1. Numbers 13:23 Eshkol means cluster; also in verse 24.

22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

23 And 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.

24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

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