Numbers 13:27

13:27 They told Moses,¹ “We went to the land where you sent us.² It is indeed flowing with milk and honey,³ and this is its fruit.

Deuteronomy 1:25

1:25 Then they took⁴ some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

Deuteronomy 6:10-11

Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively

6:10 Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build, 6:11 houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant – and you eat your fill,

Deuteronomy 8:7-9

8:7 For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks,⁵ springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey, 8:9 a land where you may eat food⁶ in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron⁷ and from whose hills you can mine copper.

¹tn Heb “told him and said.” The referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn The relative clause modifies “the land.” It is constructed with the relative and the verb: “where you sent us.”

³sn This is the common expression for the material abundance of the land (see further, F. C. Fensham, “An Ancient Tradition of the Fertility of Palestine,” PEQ 98 [1966]: 166-67).

⁴tn The Hebrew text includes “in their hand,” which is unnecessary and somewhat redundant in English style.

⁵tn Or “wadis.”

⁶tn The Hebrew term may refer to “food” in a more general sense (cf. NASB, NCV, NLT) or “bread” in particular (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁷sn A land whose stones are iron. Since iron deposits are few and far between in Palestine, the reference here is probably to iron ore found in mines as opposed to the meteorite iron more commonly known in that area.