Deuteronomy 1:28
28What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ▼▼ Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”
by describing people who are more numerous ▼▼ Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).
and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ▼▼ Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
itself! Moreover, they said they saw ▼▼ Heb “we have seen.”
Anakites ▼▼ Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”
▼ there.”
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