Deuteronomy 2:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹^(A) The Lord told me, “Don't try to start a war with Moab. Leave them alone, because I gave the land of Ar^[a] to them,^[b] and I will not let you have any of it.”

Tribes That Lived near Canaan

¹⁰Before 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. ¹¹The Moabites called them Emim, though others sometimes used the name Rephaim^[c] for both the Anakim and the Emim.

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Footnotes

2.9 Ar: One of the main cities of Moab (see Numbers 21.28); sometimes it may have stood for the whole territory of Moab.
2.9 them: The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Lot”; the nation of Moab descended from Moab, who was the son of Lot, the nephew of Abraham.
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).