KJV King James Version
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
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Deuteronomy 2:10
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
WEB World English Bible
(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
ASV American Standard Version
(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 2
7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
13 Now rise up, [said I], and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
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Genesis 14:5And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that [were] with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,Deuteronomy 2:11Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.Numbers 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
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