Numbers 13:32

13:32 Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging ¹  report of the land they had investigated, saying, “The land that we passed through ²  to investigate is a land that devours ³  its inhabitants. ⁴  All the people we saw there ⁵  are of great stature.

Numbers 26:54

26:54 To a larger group you will give a larger inheritance, ⁶  and to a smaller group you will give a smaller inheritance. ⁷  To each one its inheritance must be given according to the number of people in it. ⁸ 

Numbers 33:54

33:54 You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone’s inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral ⁹  tribes.

[13:32]  ¹ tn Or “an evil report,” i.e., one that was a defamation of the grace of God.

[13:32]  ² 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]  ³ 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]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “in its midst.”

[26:54]  ⁶ tn Heb “to many you will multiply his inheritance.”

[26:54]  ⁷ tn Heb “to a few you will lessen his inheritance.”

[26:54]  ⁸ tn Heb “according to those that were numbered of him,” meaning, in accordance with the number of people in his clan.

[33:54]  ¹¹ tn Heb “of your fathers.”