2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
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because they had not met the Israelites with food and water but had hired Balaam to call a curse down on them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into a blessing.)
3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
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When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.