A number of Bedouin sheiks who claim ownership to Mount Nebo have offered to sell the top of the mountain to the Franciscan Fathers, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is authoritatively informed. The Franciscan Fathers have declined the offer. According to Deuteronomy XXXIV. 1-3 it was from this mountain that Moses, just before his death, surveyed the promised land. The name Nebo is the Hebrew form of the name of the Babylonian god Nabu, and, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia, was no doubt attached to the spot during the time prior to the reign of Thothmes II, when Babylonian civilization was dominant in Syria and Palestine.
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