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Tribes That Lived near Canaan

10 Before the Lord gave the Moabites their land, a large and powerful tribe lived there. They were the Emim, and they were as tall as the Anakim. 11 The Moabites called them Emim, though others sometimes used the name Rephaim[a] for both the Anakim and the Emim.

12 The 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 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. 2.12 Edomites: The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Esau,” who became the nation of Edom.

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