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NEHEL-ESHCOL, the Brook of Grapes1, or the Valley of the Grapes. This Name was given to the Valley of the Land of Promise, wherein the Spies of the Children of Israel gather’d the Bunch of Grapes, which they brought to the Camp at Kadesh, upon a Pole between two Men. See Numb xiii. 23. The Hebrew Word Nebel or Nachal signifies either a Valley or a Brook. Nehel-eschol was to the South of the promised Land.
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נחל אשכלVallis Botri. ↩
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