(The Emites<n id="1" /> used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the <sc>Lordsc> destroyed the Rephaites<n id="1" /> in advance of the Ammonites,<n id="2" /> so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

You must not tremble in their presence, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the <sc>Lordsc> our God whenever we call on him?

And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just<n id="1" /> as this whole law<n id="2" /> that I am about to share with<n id="3" /> you today?p>

They include the Anakites,<n id="1" /> a numerous<n id="2" /> and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, &#8220;Who is able to resist the Anakites?&#8221;

So the <sc>Lordsc> has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today.&#8221;

What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage<n id="1" /> by describing people who are more numerous<n id="2" /> and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven<n id="3" /> itself! Moreover, they said they saw<n id="4" /> Anakites<n id="5" /> there.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said.<n id="1" /> Then he inscribed the words<n id="2" /> on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.