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2 Kings 3:4

And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and rendered unto the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Nourished. Hebrew noked, a term which the Septuagint leave untranslated, means literally, "marked "with some colour by the master. Aut pecori signum, aut numeros impressit acervo. (Georg. i.) Sheep, Symmachus, "large cattle. " Fleeces; is it commonly supposed every year. This mode of tribute was more usual than paying money. The Moabites were chiefly employed in feeding sheep and cattle; so that it is not wonderful that they should have such great numbers. Dejotarus is represented not only as "a noble Tetrarch, but also as a diligent husbandman and herdsman "pecuarius: (Cicero) which last is the idea which some attach to Mesa.
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