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Numbers 13:28

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13:28 But 1  the inhabitants 2  are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Numbers 13:33

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13:33 We even saw the Nephilim 3  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves 4  and to them.” 5 

Numbers 13:32

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13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging 6  report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through 7  to investigate is a land that devours 8  its inhabitants. 9  All the people we saw there 10  are of great stature.
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[13:28]  1 tn The word (אֶפֶס, ’efes) forms a very strong adversative. The land was indeed rich and fruitful, but….”

[13:28]  2 tn Heb “the people who are living in the land.”

[13:33]  3 tc The Greek version uses gigantes (“giants”) to translate “the Nephilim,” but it does not retain the clause “the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim.”

[13:33]  4 tn Heb “in our eyes.”

[13:33]  5 tn Heb “in their eyes.”

[13:32]  5 tn Or “an evil report,” i.e., one that was a defamation of the grace of God.

[13:32]  6 tn Heb “which we passed over in it”; the pronoun on the preposition serves as a resumptive pronoun for the relative, and need not be translated literally.

[13:32]  7 tn The verb is the feminine singular participle from אָכַל (’akhal); it modifies the land as a “devouring land,” a bold figure for the difficulty of living in the place.

[13:32]  8 sn The expression has been interpreted in a number of ways by commentators, such as that the land was infertile, that the Canaanites were cannibals, that it was a land filled with warlike dissensions, or that it denotes a land geared for battle. It may be that they intended the land to seem infertile and insecure.

[13:32]  9 tn Heb “in its midst.”



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