Numbers 14:7
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New International Version (©2011)
and said to the entire Israelite assembly, "The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They said to all the people of Israel, "The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!

English Standard Version (©2001)
and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and said to the entire Israelite community: "The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land.

International Standard Version (©2012)
and attempted to reason with the entire congregation of Israel. They told them, "The land that we went through and explored is very, very good.

NET Bible (©2006)
They said to the whole community of the Israelites, "The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They said to the whole community of Israel, "The land we explored is very good.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they spoke unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceedingly good land.

American King James Version
And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

American Standard Version
and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding 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:

Darby Bible Translation
And they spoke to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it out, is a very, very good land.

English Revised Version
and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

World English Bible
and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

Young's Literal Translation
and they speak unto all the company of the sons of Israel, saying, 'The land into which we have passed over to spy it, is a very very good land;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:5-10 Moses and Aaron were astonished to see a people throw away their own mercies. Caleb and Joshua assured the people of the goodness of the land. They made nothing of the difficulties in the way of their gaining it. If men were convinced of the desirableness of the gains of religion, they would not stick at the services of it. Though the Canaanites dwell in walled cities, their defence was departed from them. The other spies took notice of their strength, but these of their wickedness. No people can be safe, when they have provoked God to leave them. Though Israel dwell in tents, they are fortified. While we have the presence of God with us, we need not fear the most powerful force against us. Sinners are ruined by their own rebellion. But those who, like Caleb and Joshua, faithfully expose themselves for God, are sure to be taken under his special protection, and shall be hid from the rage of men, either under heaven or in heaven.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel,.... To as many as could hear them, to the heads of them:

saying, the land which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land; they observe that they were of the number of the spies that were appointed and sent to search the land of Canaan, and they had searched it, and therefore could give an account of it from their own knowledge; and they had not only entered into it, or just looked at a part of it, but they had gone through it, and taken a general survey of it; and they could not but in truth and justice say of it, that it was a good land, delightful, healthful, and fruitful; yea, "very, very good" (q), exceeding, exceeding good, superlatively good, good beyond expression; they were not able with words to set forth the goodness of it; this they reported, in opposition to the ill report the other spies had given of it.

(q) "bona terra, valde valde", Montanus, Vatablus.

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The People Rebel
…6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: 7And they spoke to all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. 8If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which flows with milk and honey. …

Numbers 13:27 They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
Numbers 14:6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes
Deuteronomy 1:25 Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, "It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us."