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Eternal One (giving Balaam the right words to say): Go back to Balak and recite what I’ve told you.

So Balaam walked back down and over to where Balak stood waiting next to the burnt offerings, along with the officials of Moab. Balaam recited His words.

Balaam: The king of Moab got me to come here, all the way from my home in Aram.
        Balak summoned me from the eastern mountains.
    “Come, curse Jacob for me!”
        “Come, denounce Israel!”

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The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth(A) and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”(B)

So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.(C) 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)

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