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look on all their faces.
    Ammiel ’s words were hesitant. “We traveled the length of the land of Canaan, from Bashan in the north all the way down to the Negeb. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites dwell in the hill country, and the Canaanites dwell by the sea.”
    “What of the Girgashites, Perizzites, and Hivites?” said Moses. These were the rest of the Canaanite nations that Yahweh had promised he would drive out before the Israelites. They were to make no covenant with these pagan peoples, avoid intermarrying with them, and show them no mercy, devoting them to complete destruction, lest they turn away Israel from following Yahweh to serve evil gods.
    Ammiel replied, “They are spread throughout the countryside in various territories.”
    “And what of the fertility of the land?”
    “It is true, as you told us, the land is rich and abundant, and flows with milk and honey.”
    “ So where is the sample of produce you were to bring back? The fruit of the land.”
    Ammiel and the others looked at one another with trepidation.
    Moses snapped, “Speak up.”
    Ammiel took a deep breath before confessing. “My lord, Moses, we were unable to procure any sample produce.” He paused again and swallowed. “Because we feared for our lives and could not afford the encumbrance.”
    Now, the seventy elders looked at one another and whispered amongst themselves at the scandal.
    Ammiel continued, “The people we saw who dwell in the land are stronger than we are. They live in fortified cities with walls that reach up to heaven.”
    “Yahweh did not say it was going to be easy, Ammiel,” said Moses. “Our years of being Egypt’s sentry forces in Goshen has prepared us for just such a war.”
    “ Not for this kind of war, my lord,” Ammiel interjected.
    “We saw the Nephilim.”
    A hush of silence swept over the entire congregation.
    Moses gulped.
    The Israelites were familiar with the gossip and legends about the Nephilim. But now they were hearing trustworthy eyewitnesses confirm their greatest fears.
    The Nephilim were the legendary giant offspring of the fallen Watcher gods, also called Sons of God, who mated with the daughters of men before the great Flood. In the days of Jared, two hundred of these rebels from Yahweh’s heavenly host came to earth on Mount Hermon in Canaan. Two bitter commanders, Semjaza and Azazel, led them. They revealed to mankind all kinds of sorceries and evil secrets. They sought to draw worship away from the Creator by posing as gods over the people.
    And they engaged in a nefarious plot to corrupt creation through miscegenation, the unholy elimination of the distinctions of the created order. They violated the separation of kinds, by creating hybrids of male and female, man and animal, and the most vile of all: human and divine. These were the Nephilim, the unholy hybrid offspring of human and divine seed, the giant gibborim warriors of old. The rebel Sons of God had hoped to corrupt the seedline of Eve that Yahweh had prophesied would be at war with the seedline of the Serpent. The spies had seen the giant clans that were the descendants of those original Nephilim.
    This violence of humanity and divinity brought down the waters of the Deluge in judgment. The leaders Semjaza and Azazel, along with some of the other Watchers, had been bound into the earth to await their judgment.
    But not all of them.
    Seventy remained. And their corruption was passed through some of the sons of Noah down through history until this very day.
    Moses had heard that King Chedorlaomer and a coalition of Mesopotamian kings had wiped out most of the Nephilim descendants in the time of their father Abraham. But during his forty years in the Arabian desert with the Midianites, he learned that there was a surviving remnant of these giants thriving in Canaan, but he did not know just how many.
    Ammiel ’s throaty voice shattered Moses’ thoughtful