Moab was also a region in the Holy Land, on the east coast of the Dead Sea.

>Expand your horizons.  Moab is on this continent- it is a mecca for
>outdoor sports and vertebrate paleontologists. SW Utah.
>
>On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Eric Siegel wrote:
>
>>    Wait, Moabite. Isn't that someone from the biblical city of Moab? (or
>>    was Moab a person, I know the name from *somewhere* in the old
>>    testament, look under "begat.")
>>
>>    With profound and obsequious apologies.
>>
>>    Eric Siegel
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