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What are the implications of "ha'Hu Nikra Eretz Refa'im"?

1.

Rashi, R. Bachye and Rashbam: It implies that the land of Og Melech ha'Bashan is the land of the Refa'im that Hashem gave to Avraham (at the B?ris bein ha?Besarim - Rashbam [but not the lands mentioned earlier in the Parshah, even though they were also called 'Eretz Refa'im']). 1

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Ramban: The Torah is simply saying that they took possession of the entire area specified, which 2 was all called the land of the Refa'im. 3

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Refer to 2:10:2:1 &2:20:2:1.

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Ramban: As if it had written "asher Hu Nikra Eretz Refa'im" - as we find in Divrei ha'Yamim 1, 26:28 and in Ezra 10:17.

3

But does not preclude the other areas that were called 'Eretz Refa'im'. Refer to 2:20:2:2.

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