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The Mesha Stele

Ninth-century BC victory inscription of Mesha, king of Moab, now in the Louvre, in English translation.

Author: Mesha of Moab
Publisher: Livius.org
Tradition: Ancient Near Eastern inscription
Accessed: 2026-10-06

Citation

The Stela of Mesha, English translation adapted from Klaas A. D. Smelik, Livius.org, accessed October 6, 2026.

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Where this source is used

The Canaanite conquest was genocideThe conquest texts give wrongdoing, not ethnicity, as their reason, and use the exaggerated idiom of ancient war reports. That narrows the charge but leaves hard questions.