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Numbers 13:31-33
New International Version
Numbers 13:31-33
New International Version
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”(A) 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report(B) about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours(C) those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.(D) 33 We saw the Nephilim(E) there (the descendants of Anak(F) come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers(G) in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
Numbers 13:31-33
New American Standard Bible
Numbers 13:31-33
New American Standard Bible
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “(A)We are not able to go up against the people, because they are too strong for us.” 32 So they brought (B)a bad report of the land which they had spied out to the sons of Israel, saying, “The land through which we have gone to spy out is (C)a land that devours its inhabitants; and (D)all the people whom we saw in it are people of great stature. 33 We also saw the [a](E)Nephilim there (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and (F)we were like [b]grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
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- Numbers 13:33 Lit fallen ones; LXX giants
- Numbers 13:33 Or locusts
Numbers 13:31-33
New King James Version
Numbers 13:31-33
New King James Version
31 (A)But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” 32 And they (B)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and (C)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the [a]giants ((D)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were (E)like[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were (F)in their sight.”
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- Numbers 13:33 Heb. nephilim
- Numbers 13:33 As mere insects
Numbers 13:31-33
The Message
Numbers 13:31-33
The Message
31-33 But the others said, “We can’t attack those people; they’re way stronger than we are.” They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, “We scouted out the land from one end to the other—it’s a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge. Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers.”
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Numbers 13:31-33
Amplified Bible
Numbers 13:31-33
Amplified Bible
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are too strong for us.” 32 So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we went, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
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