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Numbers 23:5

Verse 5 of 30. The 23rd of 36 chapters in Numbers, in The Law.

1Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

3Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

4God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

5The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

9For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.