The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
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And Ba’laam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
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And Balak did as Ba’laam had spoken; and Balak and Ba’laam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
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And Ba’laam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a high place.
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And God met Ba’laam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
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And the LORD put a word in Ba’laam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
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And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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And he took up his parable, and said,
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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. |
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How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?
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Or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? |
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For from the top of the rocks I see him,
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and from the hills I behold him: |
lo, the people shall dwell alone, |
and shall not be reckoned among the nations. |
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Who can count the dust of Jacob,
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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! |
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¶ And Balak said unto Ba’laam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
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And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
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¶ 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.
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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.
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And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
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And the LORD met Ba’laam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
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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?
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And he took up his parable, and said,
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Rise up, Balak, and hear; |
hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: |
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God is not a man, that he should lie;
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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? |
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Behold, I have received commandment to bless:
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and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. |
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He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
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neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: |
the LORD his God is with him, |
and the shout of a king is among them. |
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God brought them out of Egypt;
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he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn. |
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Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
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neither is there any divination against Israel: |
according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, |
What hath God wrought! |
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Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion,
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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. |
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¶ And Balak said unto Ba’laam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
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But Ba’laam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
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And Balak said unto Ba’laam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
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And Balak brought Ba’laam unto the top of Pe’or, that looketh toward Jeshi’mon.
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And Ba’laam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
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And Balak did as Ba’laam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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