“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.”
And they took 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 the LORD our God is giving to us' -- the spies' initial assessment concurs with Moses: the land is good. Yet in Numbers 13-14, the majority report will say the land is unattainable ('the cities are fortified'; 'the people are stronger than we'). Here in Deuteronomy 1, Moses highlights the unanimous acknowledgment of the land's goodness, emphasizing that the subsequent rebellion was not about the land's value but about confidence in the LORD's power.
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