DID YOU KNOW?

Numbers 21:14 quotes a few lines of poetry about the border of Moab and names the book they come from. Which book?

The answer

The Book of the Wars of the Lord. Numbers 21:14 says, "Wherefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord," and then quotes lines about dry stream valleys and the border of Moab.

Why it’s interesting

That book no longer exists. The lines in Numbers 21:14-15 are all the Bible keeps of it.

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