Numbers 14:7
Good News Translation
and said to the people, "The land we explored is an excellent land.

New Revised Standard Version
and said to all the congregation of the Israelites, “The land that we went through as spies is an exceedingly good land.

Contemporary English Version
and said: We saw the land ourselves, and it's very good.

New American Bible
and said to the whole community of the Israelites, “The land which we went through and reconnoitered is an exceedingly good land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:

an exceeding good land

Numbers 13:27 And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:

Deuteronomy 1:25 Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought them to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give us.

Deuteronomy 6:10,11 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, . . .

Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land, of brooks and of waters, and of fountains: in the plains of which and the hills deep rivers break out: . . .

Context
The People Rebel
6But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments, 7And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good:8If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.…
Cross References
Numbers 13:27
And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:

Numbers 14:6
But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments,

Deuteronomy 1:25
Taking of the fruits thereof, to shew its fertility, they brought them to us, and said: The land is good, which the Lord our God will give us.

Numbers 14:6
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