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.
14. “Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the lord had vowed would happen.