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1. I am Mesha, son of Kemosh‑yît, king of Moab, the Dibonite.
2. My father reigned over Moab thirty years; and I reigned after my father.
3. I made this high place for Kemosh in Qarho, a sanctuary of salvation, because he saved me from all my enemies and brought me back from all around.
4. Omri king of Israel oppressed Moab many days; and Kemosh was angry with his land.
5. So Omri took possession of the land of Medeba, and lived there during his days and half the days of his son—forty years.
6. But in my days, Kemosh restored it in full.
7. And I built Baal‑meon and I made in it the reservoir.
8. I built Kiriathaim.
9. The men of Gad dwelt in Ataroth from of old; and the king of Israel built Ataroth for himself.
10. But I fought against the city and captured it, and I killed all of them for the delight of Kemosh and Moab, and I brought back from there the altar hearth of its devotee and dragged it before Kemosh in Qerioth.
11. And I settled in it (two hundred) select men from Moab and from the land of Madmen.
12. And Kemosh said to me, “Go down, fight against Nebo, and take it!”
13. So I went down by night and fought against it from dawn till noon, and I captured it and killed of them seventy consecutive cities — men, women, boys, girls—and devoted them to Ashtar‑Kemosh.
14. And I captured the vessels of Yahweh and dragged them before Kemosh.
15. And the king of Israel built Jahaz and lived there while fighting against me.
16. But Kemosh drove him out before me; and I captured it, along with two hundred men from Moab, all of them men, and I placed them in Jahaz.
17. I built Aroer, and I made the road across the Arnon.
18. I built Beth‑bamoth, for it was destroyed; I built Bezer, for it lay in ruins.
19. And I built the house of the king; and I made for himself cells for the prisoners.
20. And the men of Dibon were obedient to me.
21. And I had the land of Medeba, and I caused those dwelling in [Yah]us to dwell in it, and the men of Sopher‑maon, for it was destroyed.
22. And I built [Hawr]onān, and I brought there therefrom the sheep of the land; and Horonain, in it dwelt the ?? House of David??.
23. And Kemosh said to me, “Go down, fight against Horonain!” So I went down and took it, and killed all of them seven thousand men, boys, women, girls, and maidservants—and ?? devoted them to Ashtar‑Kemosh. ??
24. And I brought therefrom the altar hearth of the beloved; and I dragged it before Kemosh in [the city of] Horonain.
25. And Baal‑meon was restored, and I built in it the reservoir; and I built Kir‑haresh.
26. And I built Beth‑gamul and Beth‑diblaṯaim; and the land was in front of me.
27. Then I built these…[the house] of the king and the reservoirs, and I built…
28. And there was no house that was not seized; and I made…
29. And the men of Gad dwelt in Ataroth…
30. ?? sheep of the land and Nebo ??
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