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Deuteronomy 2:10

8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

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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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  • Genesis 14:5

    And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

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  • Deuteronomy 2:11

    Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

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  • Numbers 13:22

    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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