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And Balaam said
unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
02 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and
Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock
and a ram.
03 And 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.
04 And 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.
05 And the Lord put a word in Balaam's
mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou
shalt speak.
06 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he
stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the
princes of Moab.
07 And 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.
08 How shall I curse, whom God hath not
cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath
not defied?
09 For 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 Who 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 And 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 And he answered and said, Must I not
take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put
in my mouth?
13 And 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 And 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 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by
thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.
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16 And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word
in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and
say thus.
17 And 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 And he took up his parable, and said,
Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken 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:
hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he
spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to
bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse
it.
21 He 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 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath
as it were the strength of an unicorn.
23 Surely 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 Behold, 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 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither
curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak,
Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord
speaketh, that I must do?
27 And 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 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of
Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me
here seven altars, and prepare me here seven
bullocks and seven rams.
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and
offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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