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Numbers

1 And Bal­aam said unto Bal­ak, Build me here sev­en al­tars, and pre­pare me here sev­en oxen and sev­en rams. 2 And Bal­ak did as Bal­aam had spo­ken; and Bal­ak and Bal­aam of­fered on every al­tar a bul­lock and a ram. 3 And Bal­aam said unto Bal­ak, Stand by thy burnt of­fer­ing, and I will go: per­ad­ven­ture the LORD will come to meet me: and what­so­ev­er he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. 4 And God met Bal­aam: and he said unto him, I have pre­pared sev­en al­tars, and I have of­fered upon every al­tar a bul­lock and a ram. 5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Re­turn unto Bal­ak, and thus thou shalt speak. 6 And he re­turned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sac­ri­fice, he, and all the princes of Moab. 7 And he took up his para­ble, and said, Bal­ak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the moun­tains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Ja­cob, and come, defy Is­rael. 8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I de­fy, whom the LORD hath not de­fied? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I be­hold him: lo, the peo­ple shall dwell alone, and shall not be reck­oned among the na­tions. 10 Who can count the dust of Ja­cob, and the num­ber of the fourth part of Is­rael? Let me die the death of the righ­teous, and let my last end be like his! 11 And Bal­ak said unto Bal­aam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine en­e­mies, and, be­hold, thou hast blessed them al­to­geth­er. 12 And he an­swered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? 13 And Bal­ak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto an­oth­er place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the ut­most part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. 14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pis­gah, and built sev­en al­tars, and of­fered a bul­lock and a ram on every al­tar. 15 And he said unto Bal­ak, Stand here by thy burnt of­fer­ing, while I meet the LORD yon­der. 16 And the LORD met Bal­aam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Bal­ak, and say thus. 17 And when he came to him, be­hold, he stood by his burnt of­fer­ing, and the princes of Moab with him. And Bal­ak said unto him, What hath the LORD spo­ken? 18 And he took up his para­ble, and said, Rise up, Bal­ak, and hear; hear­ken unto me, thou son of Zip­por: 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; nei­ther the son of man, that he should re­pent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spo­ken, and shall he not make it good? 20 Be­hold, I have re­ceived commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I can­not re­verse it. 21 He hath not be­held in­iq­ui­ty in Ja­cob, nei­ther hath he seen per­verse­ness in Is­rael: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. 22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an uni­corn. 23 Sure­ly there is no en­chant­ment against Ja­cob, nei­ther is there any div­ina­tion against Is­rael: ac­cord­ing to this time it shall be said of Ja­cob and of Is­rael, What hath God wrought! 24 Be­hold, the peo­ple shall rise up as a great li­on, and lift up him­self as a young li­on: he shall not lie down un­til he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. 25 And Bal­ak said unto Bal­aam, Nei­ther curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 26 But Bal­aam an­swered and said unto Bal­ak, Told not I thee, say­ing, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do? 27 And Bal­ak said unto Bal­aam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto an­oth­er place; per­ad­ven­ture it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. 28 And Bal­ak brought Bal­aam unto the top of Pe­or, that looketh to­ward Jeshi­mon. 29 And Bal­aam said unto Bal­ak, Build me here sev­en al­tars, and pre­pare me here sev­en bul­locks and sev­en rams. 30 And Bal­ak did as Bal­aam had said, and of­fered a bul­lock and a ram on every al­tar.