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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
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CHAPTER 24
  17 I shall see him, but anot now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a bStar out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of cMoab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.

Footnotes
17a
IE his coming was to be in the future, long after Moses’ time.
b
c
2 Sam. 8: 2.
  2 And he smote aMoab, and bmeasured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the cMoabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
Jer. 48: 45.
  45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of aHeshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of bMoab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.