OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 23:14

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He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

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Verse 14. Place. Hebrew sede tsohpim, or “the field of the sentinels.” Chald. Such were commonly stationed on the top of high hills, to give notice, by kindling a fire, and so forth of the approach of an enemy. Isaiah 21:11. Jeremiah 6:1. Calmet.

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