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Reba

Numbers xxxi. 8.REBA, or Rebe, or Reb, one of the Princes of the Midianites, who was kill’d in the War that Moses, by Order from the Lord, waged against them by the Hand of Phinehas Son of the High-Priest Eleazar, for the Punishment of the Crime to which they had seduced the Israelites, by sending their Women into the Camp, and inviting them to the Festival of Peor1.

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  1. In the Year of the World 2553. before Christ 1447, before the Vulgar Era 1451, some Months before the Israelites enter’d into the Land of Promise. ↩

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Reba,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/r/reba/.

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