8. So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, leaving behind us the Arabah route, Elath, and Ezion-geber. Then we turned and passed on toward the wilderness of Moab.
9. And the Lord said to me, Do not show hostility to the Moabites or engage them in battle, for I will not give you possession of any of their land, since I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.
10. (Formerly the Emim lived there, a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim;
11. like the Anakim they are considered Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.
12. In Seir, however, the former inhabitants were the Horites; the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, clearing them out of the way and dwelling in their place, just as Israel has done in the land of its possession which the Lord gave it.)
13. Now get ready to cross the Wadi Zered.So we crossed the Wadi Zered.