Numbers 13:28 {29}
Good News Translation
But the people who live there are powerful, and their cities are very large and well fortified. Even worse, we saw the descendants of the giants there.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet the people who live in the land are strong, and the towns are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.

Contemporary English Version
But the people who live there are strong, and their cities are large and walled. We even saw the three Anakim clans.

New American Bible
However, the people who are living in the land are powerful, and the towns are fortified and very large. Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.

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Deuteronomy 1:28 Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.

Deuteronomy 2:10,11,21 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims, . . .

Deuteronomy 3:5 All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.

Deuteronomy 9:1,2 Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky, . . .

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Numbers 13:22,23,33 And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt. . . .

Joshua 11:22 He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the children of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in which alone they were left.

Joshua 15:14 And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.

Judges 1:20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said, who destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac.

Context
The Reports of the Spies
27And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits: 28But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.29Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan.…
Cross References
Numbers 13:22
And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of Egypt.

Numbers 13:33
There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Deuteronomy 1:28
Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up to the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.

Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Thou shalt go over the Jordan this day; to possess nations very great, and stronger than thyself, cities great, and walled up to the sky,

Deuteronomy 9:2
A people great and tall, the sons of the Enacims, whom thou hast seen, and heard of, against whom no man is able to stand.

2 Samuel 21:16
Jesbibenob, who was of the race of Arapha, the iron of whose spear weighed three hundred ounces, being girded with a new sword, attempted to kill David.

Numbers 13:27
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