9. And the LORD said unto me,
10. The Emim dwelt there in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;
11. Who also were considered giants, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
12. The Horites also dwelt in Seir formerly; 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.
13. Now rise up,
14. And the time in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were perished from among the camp as the LORD swore unto them.
15. For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
16. So it came to pass, when all the men of war were perished and dead from among the people,
17. That the LORD spoke unto me, saying,
18. You are to pass over through Ar, the boundary of Moab, this day: