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| | 13:31 |
'We cannot go forward against those people!' replied the men who had gone with him. 'They are too strong for us!'
Veha'anashim asher-alu imo ameru lo nuchal la'alot el-ha'am ki-chazak hu mimenu. |
| 13:32 |
They began to speak badly about the land that they had explored. They told the Israelites, 'The land that we crossed to explore is a land that consumes its inhabitants. All the men we saw there were huge!
Vayotsiu dibat ha'arets asher taru otah el-beney Yisra'el lemor ha'arets asher avarnu vah latur otah erets ochelet yoshveyha hi vechol-ha'am asher-ra'inu vetochah anshey midot. |
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Commentary:
huge (Rashi; Ibn Ezra; Septuagint). Literally, 'men of measure.'
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