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Israel then made this vow to the Lord: “If you deliver this people into my hand, I will put their cities under the ban.”(A) The Lord paid attention to Israel and delivered up the Canaanites,(B) and they put them and their cities under the ban. Hence that place was named Hormah.[a]

The Bronze Serpent. From Mount Hor they set out by way of the Red Sea, to bypass the land of Edom, but the people’s patience was worn out by the journey;

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Footnotes

  1. 21:3 Hormah: related to the Hebrew word herem, meaning “put under the ban.” See notes on 14:45; 18:14.