Numbers 13:33 “We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from…”

Numbers 13:33

We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim. We were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”

American Standard Version

And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Geneva Bible 1599

So they brought vp an euill report of the land which they had searched for the children of Israel, saying, The lande which we haue gone through to search it out, is a land that eateth vp the inhabitants thereof: for all the people that we sawe in it, are men of great stature.

Darby Translation

and there have we seen giants — the sons of Anak are of the giants — and we were in our sight as grasshoppers, and so we were also in their sight.

Young's Literal Translation

and there we saw the Nephilim, sons of Anak, of the Nephilim; and we are in our own eyes as grasshoppers; and so we were in their eyes.'

Bible in Basic English

There we saw those great men, the sons of Anak, offspring of the Nephilim: and we seemed to ourselves no more than insects, and so we seemed to them.

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Cross references

“saw the giants”

Deuteronomy 1:28 Deuteronomy 9:2 Deuteronomy 3:11 Numbers 13:22 Deuteronomy 2:10 1 Samuel 17:4–7

Deuteronomy 1:28 · BSB

Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

Deuteronomy 9:2 · BSB

The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

Deuteronomy 3:11 · BSB

(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

Numbers 13:22 · BSB

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 2:10 · BSB

(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

1 Samuel 17:4–7 · BSB

Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

“and we were”

Isaiah 40:22 1 Samuel 17:42

Isaiah 40:22 · BSB

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

1 Samuel 17:42 · BSB

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.

Also

Genesis 6:4

Genesis 6:4 · BSB

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

32So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.

Read Numbers 13