10. (The Emites, who lived in Ar before, were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites.
11. The Emites were thought to be Rephaites, like the Anakites, but the Moabite people called them Emites.
12. The Horites also lived in Edom before, but the descendants of Esau forced them out and destroyed them, taking their place as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their own.)
13. And the Lord said to me, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.
14. It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen.
15. The Lord continued to work against them to remove them from the camp until they were all dead.
16. When the last of those fighting men had died,
17. the Lord said to me,