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The Prophecies of Balaam |
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| Numbers 23:1 |
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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars
for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here." |
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| Numbers 23:2 |
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Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak
and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar. |
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| Numbers 23:3 |
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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your
burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever
He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a bare hill. |
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| Numbers 23:4 |
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Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, "I have
set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar." |
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| Numbers 23:5 |
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Then the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and
said, "Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus." |
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| Numbers 23:6 |
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So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing
beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab. |
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| Numbers 23:7 |
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He took up his discourse and said, "From Aram
Balak has brought me, Moab's king from the mountains of the East, 'Come curse
Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!' |
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| Numbers 23:8 |
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"How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced? |
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| Numbers 23:9 |
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"As I see him from the top of the rocks, And
I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people who dwells apart, And will not
be reckoned among the nations. |
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| Numbers 23:10 |
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"Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number
the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, And let my end
be like his!" |
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| Numbers 23:11 |
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done
to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!" |
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| Numbers 23:12 |
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He replied, "Must I not be careful to speak
what the LORD puts in my mouth?" |
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| Numbers 23:13 |
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Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me
to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme
end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there." |
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| Numbers 23:14 |
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So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the
top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. |
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| Numbers 23:15 |
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And he said to Balak, "Stand here beside your
burnt offering while I myself meet the LORD over there." |
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| Numbers 23:16 |
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Then the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his
mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." |
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| Numbers 23:17 |
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He came to him, and behold, he was standing
beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to
him, "What has the LORD spoken?" |
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| Numbers 23:18 |
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Then he took up his discourse and said, "Arise,
O Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, O son of Zippor! |
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| Numbers 23:19 |
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"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a
son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has
He spoken, and will He not make it good? |
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| Numbers 23:20 |
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"Behold, I have received a command to bless;
When He has blessed, then I cannot revoke it. |
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| Numbers 23:21 |
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"He has not observed misfortune in Jacob; Nor
has He seen trouble in Israel; The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of
a king is among them. |
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| Numbers 23:22 |
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"God brings them out of Egypt, He is for them
like the horns of the wild ox. |
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| Numbers 23:23 |
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"For there is no omen against Jacob, Nor is
there any divination against Israel; At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob
And to Israel, what God has done! |
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| Numbers 23:24 |
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"Behold, a people rises like a lioness, And
as a lion it lifts itself; It will not lie down until it devours the prey, And
drinks the blood of the slain." |
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| Numbers 23:25 |
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them
at all nor bless them at all!" |
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| Numbers 23:26 |
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But Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not tell
you, 'Whatever the LORD speaks, that I must do'?" |
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| Numbers 23:27 |
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please come, I
will take you to another place; perhaps it will be agreeable with God that you
curse them for me from there." |
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| Numbers 23:28 |
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So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which
overlooks the wasteland. |
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| Numbers 23:29 |
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Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for
me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here." |
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| Numbers 23:30 |
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Balak did just as Balaam had said, and offered
up a bull and a ram on each altar. |
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