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What does Numbers 13:28 mean?
"However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there."
— Numbers 13:28 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.
They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover, we saw the children of Anak there.
Amalek dwells in the land of the South. The Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country. The Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along the side of the Jordan.”
Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”
But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
Explanation
Numbers 13:28 comes from the report given by the twelve spies whom Moses sent to scout the land of Canaan before Israel's planned entry into it. The verse itself is simple in its content: the spies confir
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