They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
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They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
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And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us.'
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To wit, Caleb, and Joshua: Moses preferreth the better…
To wit, Caleb, and Joshua: Moses preferreth the better part to the greater, that is, two to ten.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 1:25 And they took of the fruit of…
Deu 1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought [it] down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, [It is] a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
Ver. 25. And brought us word again.] Joshua and Caleb did; for the rest are not here reckoned of; God counts of men by the goodness that is in them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The fruit; grapes, pomegranates, and figs, Num 13:23.
The fruit; grapes, pomegranates, and figs, Num 13:23.
It is a good land; which acknowledgment, coming from its enemies, should have prevailed with you to go in, more than their discouraging words should have beat you off, because the Lord who had given you this land, was unquestionably able to settle you in it in spite of all opposition.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they took of the fruit of the land…
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands,.... Besides the cluster of grapes, which was carried between two men on a staff; even pomegranates and figs, Num 13:23,
and brought it down unto us; who lay encamped at the bottom of the mountain:
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and brought us word again; what sort of a land it was:
and said, it is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us; that is, Caleb and Joshua, two of the spies, said this, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, and so Jarchi; yea, all of them agreed in this, and said at first that it was a land flowing with milk and honey, Num 13:27.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. And they took of the fruit of the…
25. And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands] Summary of E, Num_13:23; Num_13:26 b; a branch with one cluster (eshkol) of grapes … pomegranates and figs … and showed them the fruit of the land.
a good land] J, Num_13:27 f., surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit; but the people are strong, the cities fenced and great, etc. P, Num_13:32 : they brought up an evil report of the land … a land that eateth up its inhabitants. Yet later, Num_14:7, P ascribes a good report to Joshua and Kaleb.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) It is a good land.—In Num_13:27 they all…
(25) It is a good land.—In Num_13:27 they all say, “Surely it floweth with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.” In Num_14:7 Joshua and Caleb describe it as an “exceeding good land.”
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel what the previous generation of Israelites did.
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They took
"The 12 men took"
took some of the produce of the land in their hands
"picked some of the produce of the land"
brought us word and said
The speaker speaks as if a "word" were a physical object that someone could bring. AT: "told us" (See: Metaphor)
said, 'It is a good land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.'
The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. AT: "said that the land that Yahweh our God was giving to us was good"
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