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Balaam said to them, "Spend the night here, and tomorrow I will report to you whatever the Lord tells me." So the Moabite leaders stayed with Balaam.
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God came to Balaam and asked, "Who are these people that are staying with you?"
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He answered, "King Balak of Moab has sent them to tell me
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that a people who came from Egypt has spread out over the whole land. He wants me to curse them for him, so that he can fight them and drive them out."
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God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them, and do not put a curse on the people of Israel, because they have my blessing."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.