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7 Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying: “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me; Come, denounce Israel!’ 8 How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced? 9 For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him. Here is a people living alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations! 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the dust-cloud of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!” 11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but now you have done nothing but bless them.” 12 He answered, “Must I not take care to say what the LORD puts into my mouth?” Numbers 23:7-12, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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