Deuteronomy 1:22-25

Context
1:22 So all of you approached me and said, “Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.” 1:23 I thought this was a good idea,¹ so I sent² twelve men from among you, one from each tribe. 1:24 They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley,³ which they scouted out. 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.”

[1:23] ¹tn Heb “the thing was good in my eyes.”

[1:23] ²tn Or “selected” (so NIV, NRSV, TEV); Heb “took.”

[1:24] ³tn Or “the Wadi Eshcol” (so NAB).

[1:25] ⁴tn The Hebrew text includes “in their hand,” which is unnecessary and somewhat redundant in English style.