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7 And he began hys parable and sayed: Balac the kinge of Moab hath fett me fro Mesopotamia out of the mountaynes of the easte sayenge: come and curse me Iacob come and defye me Israel. 8 How shall I curse whom God curseth not and how shall I defye whom the Lorde defyeth not? 9 from the toppe of ye rockes I se him and from the hylles I beholde him: loo ye people shall dwell by him selfe and shall not be rekened amoge other nacions. 10 Who can tell the dust of Iacob and the numbre of the fourth parte of Israel. I praye God that my soule maye dye the deeth of the righteous ad that my last ende maye be like his. 11 And Balac sayed vnto Balam what hast thou done vnto me? I fett ye to curse myne enemyes: and beholde thou blessest them. 12 And he answered and sayed: must I not kepe that and speake it which the Lorde hath put in my mouthe? Numbers 23:7-12, Tyndale Bible of 1526. Public domain.
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