# General Information:

Moses continues reminding the people of Israel what the previous generation of Israelites did.

# They took

"The 12 men took"

# took some of the produce of the land in their hands

"picked some of the produce of the land"

# brought us word and said

The speaker speaks as if a "word" were a physical object that someone could bring. Alternate translation: "told us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# said, 'It is a good land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.'

The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. Alternate translation: "said that the land that Yahweh our God was giving to us was good"