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Numbers 24:20

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the first of the nations: or, the first of the nations that warred against Israel, Exodus 17:8, Exodus 17:16

his latter end: Judges 6:3; 1 Samuel 14:48, 1 Samuel 15:3-8, 1 Samuel 27:8-9, 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:17; 1 Chronicles 4:43; Esther 3:1; Esther 7:9-10, Esther 9:14

shall be that he perish for ever: or, shall be even to destruction, Exodus 17:14; 1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:8

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