Iye Abarim
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Where Israel encamps after Oboth, in the wilderness before Moab toward the sunrise (Numbers 21:11). Numbers 33:44 has the people encamp in Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab, after Oboth, and 33:45 has them travel from Iyim and encamp in Dibon Gad.
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- NUM 21:10–15, engwebp
10The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
11They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
12From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
13From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
15the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
- NUM 33:41–49, engwebp
41They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
42They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
43They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
44They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.
45They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
46They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
47They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
49They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
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Geographic sources & candidates
Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Iye-abarim” by name and 3 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Medeineh (confidence 403 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.
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- Medeineh
OpenBible.info confidence 403 of 1000 (current scholarship)
30.956, 35.77948
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Iye-abarim” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (2) — Encamping from Oboth to the other side of the Arnon, From Mount Hor to the plains of Moab
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They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.
They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Iye Abarim (place-iye-abarim) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/iye-abarim Current wording: Where Israel encamps after Oboth, in the wilderness before Moab toward the sunrise (Numbers 21:11). Numbers 33:44 has the people encamp in Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab, after Oboth, and 33:45 has them travel from Iyim and encamp in Dibon Gad. Cited evidence: NUM 21:10–15, engwebp / NUM 33:41–49, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.