1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Numbers 21:10 And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.

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."