Deuteronomy 2:17-23

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¹⁷ the Lord said to me, ¹⁸ ‘Today you must cross the border at Ar and go into Moab. ¹⁹ You will be just across from the Ammonites. Don’t bother them or fight with them, because I will not give you their land. They are descendants of Lot, and I have given that land to them.’”

²⁰ (That country is also known as the Land of Rephaim. The Rephaites lived there in the past. The people of Ammon called them the Zamzummites. ²¹ There were many Rephaites, and they were very strong and tall like the Anakites. But the Lord helped the Ammonites destroy them. The Ammonites took that land and live there now. ²² God did the same thing for Esau’s people. In the past the Horites lived in Seir.^[a] But Esau’s people destroyed the Horites, and Esau’s descendants still live there today. ²³ God did the same thing for some people from Crete. The Avvites lived in the towns around Gaza, but the Cretans destroyed them, took the land, and live there now.)