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Deuteronomy 2:10

8 So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.

9 Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

11 Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

12 The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)

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BSB
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
KJV
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
WEB
(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
ASV
(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
DARBY
(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
BLB
(The Emites in times past had dwelt there, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.
ÅB
Før i tiden bodde emittene der, et stort og tallrikt folk og høyt av vekst slik som anakittene.
OTB
(Emittene bodde der tidligere—et folk like stort, tallrikt og høyt som anakittene.
B1930
Før i tiden bodde emittene der, et stort og tallrikt folk og høit av vekst likesom anakittene.

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Cross references

  • Genesis 14:5

    In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

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  • Deuteronomy 2:11

    Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

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  • Numbers 13:22

    They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

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