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Balaam Continues to Utter Oracles

24 And Balaam saw that it pleased[a] Yahweh to bless Israel, and he did not go as other times[b] to seek out[c] sorcery; instead, he set his face toward the desert. Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it.[d] He uttered[e] his oracle and said,

“The declaration of Balaam son Beor,
    the declaration of the man whose eyes are closed,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:1 Literally “it was good in the eyes of Yahweh”
  2. Numbers 24:1 Literally “as time on time”
  3. Numbers 24:1 Literally “to meet”
  4. Numbers 24:2 That is, Israel
  5. Numbers 24:3 Literally “lifted up”