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Rephaim (Ugaritic rpum texts KTU 1.20-1.22; Deut 3:11; Isa 26:14)
Deuteronomy says Og's iron bed could still be seen at Rabbah: nine cubits long and four wide.
c.13th c. BCE (Ugarit); 7th-6th c. BCE (Hebrew)
Deuteronomy points to Og's iron bed, about 4 m long, as something you could still go and see. What were the writers actually looking at?
The site of Ugarit (Ras Shamra, Syria), where the tablets were found. Photo: Loris Romito, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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