10. (In the past, the Emites lived in Ar. They were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites.
11. The Anakites were part of the Rephaites. People thought the Emites were also Rephaites, but the people of Moab called them Emites.
12. The Horites also lived in Seir in the past. Then Esau’s people destroyed the Horites, took their land, and settled there, just as the Israelites did to the people in the land that the Lord gave them.)
13. “The Lord told me, ‘Now, go to the other side of Zered Valley.’ So we crossed Zered Valley.
14. It was 38 years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until the time we crossed Zered Valley. As the Lord had promised, all the fighting men in our camp from that generation had died.
15. The Lord had opposed those men until they were all dead and gone from our camp.
16. “After all the fighting men were dead and gone,
17. the Lord said to me,