Government: Mosaic: Among the Midianites and Moabites
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Numbers 22:4, 7
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time, / The elders of Moab and Midian departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and relayed to him the words of Balak.