Hebrew Bible · Numbers 13:32–33
Giants in Canaan: 'we were as grasshoppers'
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And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Translation: KJV
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Read it literally
The spies call it 'a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof' (13:32).
What scholars say
The only other use of 'Nephilim' in the Bible. Scholars read it as spies exaggerating.
