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(A)because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they (B)hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of (C)Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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For they did not come to meet you with bread and water(A) on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam(B) son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim[a](C) to pronounce a curse on you.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:4 That is, Northwest Mesopotamia

And Balaam (A)took up his discourse and said,

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

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Then Balaam(A) spoke his message:(B)

“Balak brought me from Aram,(C)
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.(D)
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
    come, denounce Israel.’(E)

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