Deuteronomy 1:28

1:28 What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage ¹  by describing people who are more numerous ²  and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven ³  itself! Moreover, they said they saw ⁴  Anakites ⁵  there.”

Deuteronomy 30:9

30:9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands ⁶  abundantly successful and multiply your children, ⁷  the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more ⁸  rejoice over you to make you prosperous ⁹  just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

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¹ tn Heb “have caused our hearts to melt.”

² tn Heb “greater.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “stronger,” NAB, NIV, NRSV; “bigger,” NASB).

³ tn Or “as the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

⁴ tn Heb “we have seen.”

⁵ tn Heb “the sons of the Anakim.”

sn Anakites were giant people (Num 13:33; Deut 2:10, 21; 9:2) descended from a certain Anak whose own forefather Arba founded the city of Kiriath Arba, i.e., Hebron (Josh 21:11).

⁶ tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.

⁷ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

⁸ tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.

⁹ tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”