Religion is dangerous, and fanaticism grows in a festering pool of ideas that is the natural environment of the obsession with a piece of text.
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*Numbers 21:34
And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
21:35
So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.