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Numbers 23:5-10
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Numbers 23:5-10
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5 The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth(A) and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”(B)
6 So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.(C) 7 Then Balaam(D) spoke his message:(E)
“Balak brought me from Aram,(F)
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.(G)
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel.’(H)
8 How can I curse
those whom God has not cursed?(I)
How can I denounce
those whom the Lord has not denounced?(J)
9 From the rocky peaks I see them,
from the heights I view them.(K)
I see a people who live apart
and do not consider themselves one of the nations.(L)
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob(M)
or number even a fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,(N)
and may my final end be like theirs!(O)”
Numbers 23:5-10
King James Version
Numbers 23:5-10
King James Version
5 And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 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, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
9 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 nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, 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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