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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do? |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. |
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