Deuteronomy 2:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹The Moabites called them Emim, though others sometimes used the name Rephaim^[a] for both the Anakim and the Emim.

¹²The Horites used to live in Seir, but the Edomites^[b] took over that region. They killed many of the Horites and forced the rest of them to leave, just as Israel did to the people in the land that the Lord gave them.

Israel Crossed the Zered Gorge

Moses said to Israel:

¹³When we came to the Zered Gorge along the southern border of Moab, the Lord told us to cross the gorge into Moab, and we did.

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Footnotes

2.10,11 Emim … Anakim … Rephaim: These may refer to a group or groups of very tall people that lived in or near Palestine before the Israelites (see also Numbers 13.33).
2.12 Edomites: The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Esau,” who became the nation of Edom.