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Deuteronomy 2:10
Deuteronomy 2:10 is verse 10 of Deuteronomy chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
King James Version
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
World English Bible
(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
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Deuteronomy 2:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
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.”
10 (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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 2:11Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
Genesis 14:5In 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,