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Oboth

wilderness camp

Wilderness camp in the Israelites' Exodus journey, listed between Iye-abarim and other eastern stages in the itinerary of Numbers.

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Oboth was one of the stages in the ' wilderness journey, listed in the itinerary of Numbers 21 and repeated in Numbers 33. It appears after Iye-abarim in the account of the journey around the territory of Edom and . Numbers 21:10–11 records that the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth, then moved on to Iye-abarim in the wilderness before Moab. The site receives no further description or narrative significance in the biblical text.

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