OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 21:33

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33

They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

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Verse 33. Og, the king of the most fertile country of Basan, was of gigantic stature. Deuteronomy 3:11. The Rabbins relate many fables concerning him.—Edrai was 15 miles to the north of the torrent Jeboc, ( Calmet.) which was the southern extremity of this territory. Bible.

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