Chapter 23
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And Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from which you will see it from there. You will see none of its edge, and you will not see all of it—and curse it for me from there."
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He took him to the field of the Watchers, to the top of the peak. He built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, and I will meet God here."
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And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth. He said, "Go back to Balak, and this is what you shall say."
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He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the chiefs of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"
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He lifted up his oracle and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; listen closely, you who bear witness, son of Zippor."
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The LORD is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of Adam that he should repent. The one who says and does not do, and speaks and does not fulfill it.
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Behold, I have received a blessing, and he blesses, and I cannot take it back.
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He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD his God is with him, and a shout of a king is in him.
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God who brings them out from Egypt, like the outburst of a wild ox to him.
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For there is no divination against Jacob, no augury against Israel. It is said about Jacob and Israel what God has done.
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Behold, a people rises like a lioness and rears up like a lion. It does not lie down until it devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.
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He said to Balaam, "Balak, even if you curse, you will not curse us; even if you bless, you will not bless us."
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Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Have I not spoken to you, saying, 'All that the LORD speaks, I will do'?"