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Okay, we're going to go to get started, and we're going to get started. We're starting at the beginning of Numbers Chapter 25. I already did this in person,

but for the people somewhere in the distant future, perhaps all the way in the year 2000,

who are listening to this. I know a lot of you are young, but when I was a kid,

everything in the distant future was set in the year 2000. So that was the bit. You remember.

Yes. There, you said something on the recording. You've been trapped.

So in future day, there is going to be some, shall we say, mature content, mature content, this evening, in the early part of this evening at least.

So just be prepared for that.

But so, Gerdes caught up real quick to where we were,

because again, for you listening to the recording,

it has been merely a week since the last episode,

but for us it's been a little bit.

So we just finished with the story,

the main story involving Bealamim the son of Bayor

the prophet for hire Moabite prophet for hire

which sounds like a bad TV pilot

maybe it'll do a house of David spin-off

Balam son of Bayor

who was hired by Balak

different guy, king of Moab, to come and curse Israel and the whole

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