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10 (The Emites formerly lived in it, a strong, numerous people and tall like the Anakites.

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11 They, like the Anakites, are also considered to be Rephaim,[a] but the Moabites call them Emites.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:11 The Rephaim were a race of giant people who were among the earliest inhabitants of the land. The translation retains the Hebrew form of the name Rephaim because of its occurrence in geographic terms like the Valley of Rephaim.

21 They are a strong and numerous people and as tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaim from among the Ammonites. The Ammonites took possession of their land and lived there in their place.

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