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  • Balak’s set up here for Balaam to deliver the curse he has paid for handsomely is rather elaborate. Seven separate altars have been erected, each equipped with both a bull and a ram to be simultaneously sacrificed. Together, the King of Moab and the prophet for hire offer up these animals on the altars.


  • Chapter 21 opens with what we can presume must be the second generation of Israelites (probably because just about everyone from the previous generation has already died) moving out towards the promised land. The geographical description of where the people of God are moving through has them moving to the east of the Jordan River, just southeast of the Dead Sea,