Numbers 14:8
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New International Version (©2011)
If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And if the LORD is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.

English Standard Version (©2001)
If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us-- a land which flows with milk and honey.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If the LORD is pleased with us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and give it to us.

International Standard Version (©2012)
If the LORD is pleased with us, he'll bring us into this land and give it to us. It flows with milk and honey.

NET Bible (©2006)
If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us--a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If the LORD is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us. This is a land flowing with milk and honey!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

American King James Version
If 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.

American Standard Version
If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

Darby Bible Translation
If Jehovah delight in us, he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land that flows with milk and honey;

English Revised Version
If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

Webster's Bible Translation
If the LORD delighteth in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

World English Bible
If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

Young's Literal Translation
if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey;

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 8. - If the Lord delight in us. An expression used by Moses himself (Deuteronomy 10:15). It did indeed place the whole matter in the only right light; all the doubt that could possibly exist was the doubt implied in that "if."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If the Lord delight in us,.... Continue to delight in them as he had, and as appears by what he had done for, them in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; see Deuteronomy 10:15,

then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, as he has promised:

a land which floweth with milk and honey; as the Lord himself hath described it, and as the unbelieving spies themselves had owned it; Numbers 13:27.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. a land flowing with milk and honey—a general expression, descriptive of a rich and fertile country. The two articles specified were among the principal products of the Holy Land.

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The People Rebel
…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. 9Only rebel not you against the LORD, neither fear you the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. …

Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
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 16:14 Moreover, you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like slaves? No, we will not come!"
Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the LORD set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations--as it is today.