Deuteronomy 1:28-30

Contemporary English Version

²⁸We are afraid, because the men who explored the land told us that the cities are large, with walls that reach to the sky. The people who live there are taller and stronger than we are,^[a] and some of them are Anakim.^[b] We have nowhere to go.”

²⁹Then I said, “Don't worry! ³⁰The Lord our God will lead the way. He will fight on our side, just as he did when we saw him do all those things to the Egyptians.

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Footnotes

1.28 The people … we are: Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and one ancient translation “the people who live there are stronger than we are, and there are more of them than there are of us.”
1.28 Anakim: Perhaps a group of very tall people that lived in or near Palestine before the Israelites. See also 2.10,11, 20,21; Numbers 13.33.