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# General Information:
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Moses continues reminding the people of Israel what the previous generation of Israelites did.
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# 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
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The speaker speaks as if a "word" were a physical object that someone could bring. AT: "told us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# said, 'It is a good land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.'
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The direct quotation can be translated as an indirect quotation. AT: "said that the land that Yahweh our God was giving to us was good"