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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me." |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the LORD will meet with me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me." So he went to a barren hill. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4God met with him and Balaam said to him, "I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the LORD put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak and say what I tell you." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: "Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel!" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the LORD has not denounced? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; it does not consider itself among the nations. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered even one-fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my life be like theirs. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"What have you done to me?" Balak asked Balaam. "I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed them!" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He answered, "Shouldn't I say exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won't see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the LORD over there." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then he said, "Return to Balak and say what I tell you." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, "What did the LORD say?" |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak, get up and listen; son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say! |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19God is not a man, that he might lie, or a son of man, that he might change his mind. Does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I have indeed received a command to bless; since he has blessed, I cannot change it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He considers no disaster for Jacob; he sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and there is rejoicing over the King among them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22God brought them out of Egypt; he is like the horns of a wild ox for them. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23There is no magic curse against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said about Jacob and Israel, "What great things God has done!" |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24A people rise up like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Then Balak told Balaam, "Don't curse them and don't bless them!" |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But Balaam answered him, "Didn't I tell you: Whatever the LORD says, I must do?" |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Again Balak said to Balaam, "Please come. I will take you to another place. Maybe it will be agreeable to God that you can put a curse on them for me there." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Balaam told Balak, "Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30So Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. |
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