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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."
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Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever * He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a bare hill.
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Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, "I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
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Then the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus."
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So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
a.Wh w{t'l{[ -l;[ b'Cin heNih.w wy'lea b'v'Y;w ? b'aw{mt04124 yer'f -l'k.w
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He took up his discourse and said, "From Aram Balak has brought me, Moab's king from the mountains of the East, 'Come curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!'
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"How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?
~;['zt02194 a{lt0410 ~{[.z,at02194 h'm.W lea h{B;q a{l b{Q,a h'm ? h'wh.yt03068
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"As I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people who dwells apart, And will not be reckoned among the nations.
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"Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, And let my end be like his!"
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!"
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He replied, "Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?"
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Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from where * you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there."
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So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar
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And he said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the LORD over there."
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Then the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
wyip.B r'b'Dt01697 ~,f'Y;w ~'[.liBt01109 -l,a h'wh.yt03068 r'QiY;w ? reB;d.tt01696 h{k.w q'l'Bt01111 -l,a b.Wvt07725 r,ma{Y;wt0559
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He came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"
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Then he took up his discourse and said, "Arise, O Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!
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"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good
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"Behold, I have received a command to bless; When He has blessed, then I cannot revoke it.
h'N,byiv]a a{l.w .$ereb.Wt01288 yiT.x'q'l .$er'bt01288 heNih
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"He has not observed misfortune in Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them
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"God brings them out of Egypt, He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
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"For there is no omen against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel; At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob And to Israel, what God has done!
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"Behold, a people rises like a lioness, And as a lion it lifts itself; It will not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of the slain."
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!"
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But Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'Whatever * the LORD speaks, that I must do '?"
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be agreeable with God that you curse them for me from there."
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So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks * * the wasteland.
@'q.viN;ht08259 rw{[.P;ht06465 va{rt07218 ~'[.liBt01109 -t,a q'l'Bt01111 x;QiY;wt03947 ? !{myiv.y;ht03452 yen.Pt06440 -l;[
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Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."
h,z'b yil -hen.Bt01129 q'l'Bt01111 -l,a ~'[.liBt01109 r,ma{Y;wt0559 ? ]myir'pt06499 h'[.bivt07651 h,z'B yil !ek'h.w t{x.B.zimt04196 h'[.bivt07651 ? ~yilyeat0352 h'[.biv.wt07651
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Balak did just as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
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