Numbers 5:3

5:3 You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that ¹  they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

Numbers 13:33

13:33 We even saw the Nephilim ²  there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves ³  and to them.” ⁴ 

Numbers 31:26

31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum ⁵  of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

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¹ tn The imperfect tense functions here as a final imperfect, expressing the purpose of putting such folks outside the camp. The two preceding imperfects (repeated for emphasis) are taken here as instruction or legislation.

² tc The Greek version uses gigantes (“giants”) to translate “the Nephilim,” but it does not retain the clause “the sons of Anak are from the Nephilim.”

sn The Nephilim are the legendary giants of antiquity. They are first discussed in Gen 6:4. This forms part of the pessimism of the spies’ report.

³ tn Heb “in our eyes.”

⁴ tn Heb “in their eyes.”

⁵ tn The idiom here is “take up the head,” meaning take a census, or count the totals.