OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 23:4

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because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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Verse 4. Water: the necessaries of life. This inhumanity is highly resented.—Son. Hebrew “of Beor, of Pethor, a city of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.” Bible. Numbers 22:5.

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