Eight kilometres west of town is Mount Nebo where, in the Old Testament, Moses saw the Promised Land from its peak.

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He will also visit Mount Nebo in Madaba, Jordan, where Moses -- an important prophet in the Muslim, Christian and Jewish religions -- is believed to have died and been buried.

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From our place to Fort Smith was about seventy miles as a bird flies, taking you past beautiful Mount Nebo where we had a little summer house so Mama could get away from the mosquitoes, and also Mount Magazine, the highest point in Arkansas, but it might as well have been seven hundred miles for all I knew of Fort Smith.

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