The first area we will visit is Arches National Park, near the town of Moab in eastern Utah.

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Then Moses the servant of God died there, in the land of Moab, as God had said, and he buried him in the valley, in the land of Moab...but no man knows the place of his burial, to this day.

上帝的仆人摩西死在哪里，在摩押地，正如上帝所说的，并且上帝将他埋在那里，在摩押地,只是到今日没有人知道他的坟墓。

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There is a very important, famous inscription from the ninth century BCE, written by King Mesha of Moab Moab is to the southeast of the Dead Sea, so King Mesha of Moab.

有一段非常重要且著名的题词,在公元前九世纪，是摩押的米沙王所写,摩押在死海的东北，摩押的米沙王。

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And why the claim of the utter destruction of the Canaanites when evidence points to close Canaanite origins? This practice, which I mentioned before and is known as herem or the ban, is not unique to Israel. I know some of you have studied it in sections you looked at the inscription of King Mesha, King Mesha of Moab.

那为何要声称迦南彻底的毁灭呢？,当证据指出了迦南的起源，这一习俗，也就是我之前提到的禁忌或祭祀，并不是以色列独有的，我想你们也已经学过,你们看摩押米沙王的题词，摩押的米沙王。

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So I went by night and fought against it from the break of dawn until noon, taking it and slaying all 7000 men, boys, women and girls and maid servants, for I had devoted them to destruction for the god Ashtar Chemosh", referring to herem. It is likely that such claims are hyperbolic in Moab and it is likely they were hyperbolic in Israel.

我连夜赶路，与它战斗,从破晓到正午，拿下了它,屠杀了全部7000个长幼男人和女人，还有女仆，我奉献他们给阿斯塔基摩神，这便是祭祀，这些很有可能是摩押的假设,他们在以色列也很有可能是虚构的。

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