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For what it's worth, Frank Zimmerman ("The Perpetuation of Variants in the Masoretic Text," p. 468) cites this as an instance of two textual variants being preserved in the text. Version 1: וְש...
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2020-11-18T15:12:08Z (about 4 years ago)
For what it's worth, Frank Zimmerman ("[The Perpetuation of Variants in the Masoretic Text](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1452151)," p. 468) cites this as an instance of two textual variants being preserved in the text.
Version 1:
>וְשָׁם רָאִינוּ אֶת הַנְּפִילִים בְּנֵי עֲנָק
>
>...and there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak...
Version 2:
>וְשָׁם רָאִינוּ מִן הַנְּפִלִים בְּנֵי עֲנָק
>
>...and there we saw some of the Nephilim, the sons of Anak...
The words בְּנֵי עֲנָק מִן הַנְּפִלִים are omitted in the Septuagint, which apparently shows that there existed a (slightly bigger) textual variant here in the version used by the translators.