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18 And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; Give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor: 19 God is not a man, that He should lie; Neither the son of man, that He should repent: When He hath said, will He not do it? Or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good? 20 Behold, I am bidden to bless; And when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back. 21 None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath one seen perverseness in Israel; The LORD his God is with him, And the shouting for the King is among them. 22 God who brought them forth out of Egypt Is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox. 23 For there is no enchantment with Jacob, Neither is there any divination with Israel; Now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!' 24 Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up; He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain. Numbers 23:18-24, JPS Tanakh 1917. Public domain.
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