Note 240 — Chapter III · THE EXODUS OUT OF EGYPT (continued 2)
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If the two Balaams, ‘son of Beor,’ are really the same person, Edomite and Israelitish history will have handed down two different conceptions of him. The Israelitish chronology, moreover, would make it impossible for him to have been the first Edomite king (see Numb. xx. 14).