OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 21:10

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The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

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Verse 10. Oboth, where Obodas, an ancient king of the Nabatheans, was adored. Hither they came from Phunon, celebrated for its copper-mines, where Bochart believes the Hebrews were bitten by the serpents, though others say that judgment was inflicted upon them at Salmona; which may be derived from tselem enu, “our image.”

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