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Deuteronomy 2:11
Deuteronomy 2:11 is verse 11 of Deuteronomy chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
King James Version
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
World English Bible
These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
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Deuteronomy 2:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
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.)
13 “Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Deuteronomy 9:2The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
Numbers 13:22They 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.
Numbers 13:28Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 13:33We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”