7. For the lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the lord your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”’
8. “So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber.“Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,
9. the lord warned us, ‘Do not bother the Moabites, the descendants of Lot, or start a war with them. I have given them Ar as their property, and I will not give you any of their land.’”
10. (A race of giants called the Emites had once lived in the area of Ar. They were as strong and numerous and tall as the Anakites, another race of giants.
11. Both the Emites and the Anakites are also known as the Rephaites, though the Moabites call them Emites.
12. In earlier times the Horites had lived in Seir, but they were driven out and displaced by the descendants of Esau, just as Israel drove out the people of Canaan when the lord gave Israel their land.)
13. Moses continued, “Then the lord said to us, ‘Get moving. Cross the Zered Brook.’ So we crossed the brook.