²⁸ What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim^[a] there.’”^(A)

¹⁰ (Formerly the Emim lived there, a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim;^{(A) 11} like the Anakim they are considered Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.^(B)

²¹ a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. But these, too, the Lord cleared out of the way for the Ammonites, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place.^(A)

^22 (A)Going up by way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim,^[a] were. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

²⁸ However, the people who are living in the land are powerful, and the towns are fortified and very large.^(A) Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.