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Numbers 13:33 — the Anakim named as descending from the Nephilim, and the related peoples catalogued by name.
In plain words
Numbers records the spies' report that the Anakim, the giants they saw in Canaan, came from the Nephilim, and the text names the related peoples. It is a lineage claim about particular peoples, not a figure of speech, and it is not identified with any archaic human population, in either direction.
The mechanism
HERITABLE CLAIM — the text makes a lineage claim about specific populations, not a metaphor about wickedness
Scripture
Numbers 13:33; Deuteronomy 2
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the fall to Babel, undated by the text and undated here
- Plate — Gustave Dore, "Return of the Spies from the Land of Promise," La Sainte Bible (Tours, 1866) · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dore_Return_of_the_Spies_From_the_Land_of_Promise.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Numbers 13:33; Deuteronomy 2
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