A small dolmen, a flat stone slab resting on upright stones, in dry grass at Gamla in the Golan Heights
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Deuteronomy giants passages (2:10-11, 2:20-21, 3:11)

Deuteronomy says giant king Og slept on an iron bed nine cubits long.

c.7th-6th c. BCE

What would a bed nine cubits long have looked like to the people who saw it?

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