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1 Balaam said to Balak, |Build seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.| 2 Balak did what Balaam told him, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 3 Balaam said to Balak, |Stay here beside your burnt offering while I'm gone. Maybe the LORD will come and meet with me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.| Then Balaam went off to a higher place where there were no trees. 4 God came to him, and Balaam said, |I have set up seven altars, and I offered a bull and a ram on each altar.| 5 The LORD told Balaam, |Go back to Balak, and give him my message.| 6 So he went back to Balak and found him standing beside his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab. 7 Then Balaam delivered this message: |Balak brought me from Aram. The king of Moab summoned me from the eastern mountains. 'Come, curse Jacob for me,' he said. 'Come, condemn Israel.' 8 How can I curse those whom God hasn't cursed? How can I condemn those whom the LORD hasn't condemned? Numbers 23:1-8, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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