Deuteronomy 2:10
What does Deuteronomy 2:10 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 2:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
KJV
King James Version · 1611The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
Context
v.9And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
v.10This passage
v.11these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 13:22
And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Deuteronomy 2:11
these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
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