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Chad how's it going man it's going good I've had a fun morning I've been a

diving into this kind of crazy character named

Bailum that we're about to get to

and discovered a few things I didn't know already.

So I'm primed and ready.

Yeah, well, Balum is definitely some kind of a weird number sideshow that goes on.

Surprising things about Bailim is how often he comes up in the rest of the Bible too.

I was doing a word search just on his name.

And of course he features prominently in the chapters we're about to cover in numbers,

but he comes up again in Deuteronomy, in Joshua, in Nehemiah, in Micah, and then two places

in the New Testament.

I mean, it's just pretty unusual that this character who kind of comes out of nowhere

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