Numbers:23

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* And Balaam sayd vnto Balak , Builde me here seuen altars , and prepare me here seuen bullockes , and seuen rammes . * And Balak did as Balaam had spoken ; and (note :)For among the Gentiles the kings often used to sacrifice , as did the priests .(:note ) Balak and Balaam offered on [every ] altar a bullock and a ram . * Then Balaam sayde vnto Balak , Stande by the burnt offring , and I will goe , if so be that the Lorde will come and meete me : and whatsoeuer he sheweth me , I will tell thee : so he went forth alone . * And God (note :)Appeared to him .(:note ) met Balaam : and he said unto him , I have prepared seven altars , and I have offered upon [every ] altar a bullock and a ram . * And the LORD (note :)Taught him what to say .(:note ) put a word in Balaam 's mouth , and said , Return unto Balak , and thus thou shalt speak . * So when he returned vnto him , loe , hee stoode by his burnt offering , he , and all the princes of Moab . * 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 , (note :)Cause everyone to hate and detest them .(:note ) defy Israel . * How shal I curse , where God hath not cursed ? or howe shall I detest , where the Lorde hath not detested ? * 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 (note :)But shall have religion and laws apart .(:note ) nations . * Who can count the (note :)The infinite multitude , as the dust of the earth .(:note ) dust of Jacob , and the number of the fourth [part ] of Israel ? Let me The fear of God 's judgment caused him to wish to be joined to the household of Abraham : thus the wicked have their consciences wounded when they consider God 's judgments . die the death of the righteous , and let my last end be like his ! * Then Balak saide vnto Balaam , What hast thou done vnto mee ? I tooke thee to curse mine enemies , and beholde , thou hast blessed them altogether . * And he answered , and said , Must I not take heede to speake that , which the Lord hath put in my mouth ? * And Balak sayde vnto him , Come , I pray thee , with mee vnto another place , whence thou mayest see them , &amp ; thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them , and shalt not see them all : therefore curse them out of that place for my sake . * And he brought him into Sede-sophim to the top of Pisgah , and built seuen altars , and offred a bullocke , and a ramme on euery altar . * After , he sayde vnto Balak , Stande here by thy burnt offring , &amp ; I wil meete the Lord yonder . * And the Lord mette Balaam , and put an answere in his mouth , and sayd , Goe againe vnto Balak , and say thus . * And when he came to him , beholde , hee stoode by his burnt offering , and the princes of Moab with him : so Balak sayde vnto him , What hath the Lord sayd ? * And he vttered his parable , and sayde , Rise vp , Balak , and heare : hearken vnto me , thou sonne of Zippor . * * Behold , I haue receiued commandement to blesse : for he hath blessed , and I cannot alter it . * He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob , neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel : the LORD his God [is ] with him , and the (note :)They triumph as victorious kings over their enemies .(:note ) shout of a king [is ] among them . * God brought them out of Egypt : their strength is as an vnicorne . * Surely [there is ] no enchantment against Jacob , neither [is there ] any divination against Israel : (note :)Considering what God will work this time for the deliverance of his people , all the world will wonder .(:note ) according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel , What hath God wrought ! * Behold , the people shal rise vp as a lyon , &amp ; lift vp himselfe as a yong lyon : hee shall not lye downe , till he eate of the pray , and till he drinke the blood of the slayne . * Then Balak sayde vnto Balaam , Neither curse , nor blesse them at all . * But Balaam answered , &amp ; saide vnto Balak , Tolde not I thee , saying , All that the Lorde speaketh , that must I do ? * And Balak said unto Balaam , Come , I pray thee , I will bring thee unto another (note :)Thus the wicked imagine of God that what he will not grant in one place , he will do in another .(:note ) place ; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence . * So Balak brought Balaam vnto the top of Peor , that looketh toward Ieshmon . * Then Balaam sayde vnto Balak , Make me here seuen altars , and prepare me here seuen bullocks , and seuen rammes . * And Balak did as Balaam had sayd , and offred a bullocke and a ram on euery altar .

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