²⁸ However, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified.^(A) We also saw the descendants of Anak^(B) there.

³³ We even saw the Nephilim^[a](A) there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim!^(B) To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us,^(A) saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens.^(B) We also saw the descendants of the Anakim^(C) there.’

¹⁰ The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there. ¹¹ They were also regarded as Rephaim,^(A) like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.^(B)

²¹ a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The Lord destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.