Numbers 31:12

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They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Midian lay east and southeast of Canaan, while Moab bordered the eastern side of the Jordan River; Israel’s camp was on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho, near the Jordan crossing into Canaan. Peor recalls Midianite and Moabite involvement in Israel’s earlier apostasy,

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Numbers 31:12 mentions Jericho, Jordan, Midian, Moab and Peor.