Numbers:23

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* And Balaam said to Balak , Build me here seven altars , and prepare here seven oxen and seven rams for me . * And Balak did as Balaam had spoken . And Balak and Balaam offered on the altar a bull and a ram . * And Balaam said to Balak , Stand by your burnt offering , and I will go . Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me . And whatever He reveals to me I will tell you . And he went to a high place . * And God met Balaam . And he said to Him , I have prepared seven altars , and I have offered upon the altar a bull and a ram . * And the LORD put a word in Balaam 's mouth and said , Return to Balak , and so you shall speak . * And he returned to him . And lo , he stood by his burnt sacrifice , he and all the leaders of Moab . * And he took up his parable , and said , Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram , out of the mountains of the east , [saying ], Come , curse Jacob for me , and come , defy Israel . * How shall I curse whom God has not cursed ? Or how shall I defy [whom ] the LORD has not defied ? * 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 counted among the nations . * Who can count the dust of Jacob , and the number of the fourth of Israel ? Let me die the death of the righteous , and let my last end be like his ! * And Balak said to Balaam , What have you done to me ? I took you to curse my enemies , and behold , you have kept on blessing [them ]! * And he answered and said , Must I not be careful to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth ? * And Balak said to him , Please come with me to another place from where you may see them . You shall see only their edge , and shall not see them all . And curse them from there for me . * And he brought him into the field of Zophim , to the top of Pisgah , and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on [every ] altar . * And he said to Balak , Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet Him yonder . * And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth , and said , Go again to Balak and say this . * And when he came to him , behold , he stood by his burnt offering , and the leaders of Moab were with him . And Balak said to him , What has the LORD spoken ? * And he took up his parable and said , Rise up , Balak , and hear . Listen to me , son of Zippor . * God [is ] not a man that He should lie , neither the son of man that He should repent . Has He said , and shall He not do it ? Or has He spoken , and shall He not make it good ? * Behold , I have received word to bless . And He has blessed , and I cannot reverse it . * He has not seen iniquity in Jacob , neither has He seen perverseness in Israel . The LORD his God [is ] with him , and the shout of a king among them . * God brought them out of Egypt . He has , as it were , the strength of an ox . * Surely , [there is ] no spell against Jacob , nor any fortune-telling against Israel . According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel , What God has worked ! * Behold , the people shall rise up like a great lion , and lift up himself like a young lion . He shall not lie down until he eats [of ] the prey and drinks the blood of the slain . * And Balak said to Balaam , Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all . * But Balaam answered and said to Balak , Did I not tell you , saying , All that the LORD speaks , that I must do ? * And Balak said to Balaam , Please , come . I will bring you into another place . Perhaps it will please God that you will curse them for me from there . * And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor that looks toward Jeshimon . * And Balaam said to Balak , Build seven altars here for me , and prepare seven bulls and seven rams here for me . * And Balak did as Balaam had said , and offered a bull and a ram on the altar .

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