That is a big command! Just how big sinks in when we note that the Jordan and its valley are part of the Great Rift that stretches all the way from Turkey down into Malawi and Mozambique in southeast Africa. This rift is such a deep gash down the face of the earth that it can be seen from the moon. From the census figures recorded in Numbers chapter 26, we can project that Israel was a nation of at least two million people. That massive assembly would have to descend from the plains of Moab into
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