And said to all the congregation of the people of Israel: Joshua and Caleb’s emotive speech in verses 7b-9 closely echoes the positive aspects of the spies’ report in 13.27. For all the congregation of the people of Israel, which is better rendered “the whole Israelite community” (New Jewish Publication Society’s Tanakh), see verse 1.

The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land: For spy … out, see 13.2. Exceedingly good renders a strong superlative Hebrew expression, which is literally “very very good.”

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .