## Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Sh'lach

###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Sh'lach 16:1
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למקום ההוא קרא נחל אשכול וגו' (שם יג כד). זש"ה מגיד מראשית אחרית [ומקד אשר לא נעשו] (ישעיה מו י), שהכל צפוי לפני הקב"ה, אשכול אוהבו של אברהם היה, ונקרא אשכול על אודות האשכול שהיו ישראל עתידין לכרות משם ממקומו.

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
(Numb. 13:24:) THAT PLACE WAS CALLED WADI ESHCOL. This text is related (to Is. 46:10): DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, [AND FROM OF OLD, THINGS THAT HAVE NOT YET HAPPENED], in that everything is foreseen by the Holy One.⁴⁰., Numb. 4:9; Numb. R. 16:16. Eshcol (according to Gen. 14:24) was Abraham's friend, and he was called Eshcol because of the grape cluster (*eshkol*), which Israel was going to cut from his place in his name.

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