11. like the Anakim they are considered Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.
12. In Seir, however, the former inhabitants were the Horites; the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, clearing them out of the way and dwelling in their place, just as Israel has done in the land of its possession which the Lord gave it.)
13. Now get ready to cross the Wadi Zered.So we crossed the Wadi Zered.
14. Now thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and the crossing of the Wadi Zered; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn they should.
15. Indeed the Lord’s own hand was against them, to rout them from the camp completely.
16. When at length death had put an end to all the soldiers among the people,
17. the Lord said to me,
18. You are now about to leave Ar and the territory of Moab behind.
19. As you come opposite the Ammonites, do not show hostility or come in conflict with them, for I will not give you possession of any land of the Ammonites, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.
20. (This also is considered a country of the Rephaim; formerly the Rephaim dwelt there. The Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
21. a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. But these, too, the Lord cleared out of the way for the Ammonites, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place.
22. He did the same for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, by clearing the Horites out of their way, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place down to the present.