“Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.”
These also are accounted Rephaites, like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim -- the Emim are identified with the Rephaites (giants) encountered in earlier conquest narratives. The parenthetical note about nomenclature (the Moabites call them Emim) adds ethnographic interest: different peoples name the same group differently. This detail humanizes the historical narrative.
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