10. (The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.
11. These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; the Moabites call them Emites.
12. Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.)
13. Now, get up and cross the Wadi Zered.” So we did so.
14. Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.
15. Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.
16. So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,
17. the Lord said to me,
18. “Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar.
19. But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants as their possession.
20. (That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites.