Numbers 23:5-7

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⁵And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” ⁶And he returned to him, and lo, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering. ⁷And Balaam took up his discourse, and said,

“From Aram Balak has brought me,
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
and come, denounce Israel!’

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