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Numbers 23:1
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Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
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Numbers 23:2
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Balak did as Bil`am had spoken; and Balak and Bil`am offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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Numbers 23:3
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Bil`am said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.
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Numbers 23:4
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God met Bil`am: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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Numbers 23:5
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The LORD put a word in Bil`am's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
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Numbers 23:6
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He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Mo'av.
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Numbers 23:7
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He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Mo'av from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Ya`akov, Come, defy Yisra'el.
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Numbers 23:8
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How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?
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Numbers 23:9
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For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
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Numbers 23:10
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Who can count the dust of Ya`akov, Or number the fourth part of Yisra'el? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!
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Numbers 23:11
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Balak said to Bil`am, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.
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Numbers 23:12
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He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?
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Numbers 23:13
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Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.
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Numbers 23:14
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He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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Numbers 23:15
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He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.
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Numbers 23:16
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The LORD met Bil`am, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
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Numbers 23:17
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He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Mo'av with him. Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken?
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Numbers 23:18
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He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Tzippor:
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Numbers 23:19
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God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the 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 [mitzvah] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
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Numbers 23:21
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He has not saw iniquity in Ya`akov; Neither has he seen perverseness in Yisra'el: The LORD his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them.
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Numbers 23:22
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God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
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Numbers 23:23
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Surely there is no enchantment with Ya`akov; Neither is there any divination with Yisra'el: Now shall it be said of Ya`akov and of Yisra'el, What has God done!
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Numbers 23:24
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Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
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Numbers 23:25
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Balak said to Bil`am, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
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Numbers 23:26
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But Bil`am answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?
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Numbers 23:27
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Balak said to Bil`am, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
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Numbers 23:28
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Balak took Bil`am to the top of Pe`or, that looks down on the desert.
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Numbers 23:29
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Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
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Numbers 23:30
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Balak did as Bil`am had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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