Numbers 13:28
13:28 But 1 the inhabitants 2 are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 33:52-53
33:52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, 3 and demolish their high places.
33:53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
1 tn The word (אֶפֶס, ’efes) forms a very strong adversative. The land was indeed rich and fruitful, but….”
2 tn Heb “the people who are living in the land.”
3 tn The Hebrew text repeats the verb “you will destroy.”