These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 23
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- 1 And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.’
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And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every a bullock and a ram.
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- 3 And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Stand by thy burnt-, and I will go; peradventure will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.’ And he went to a bare height.
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And met Balaam; and he said unto Him: ‘I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every .’
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- 5 And put a 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-, he, and all the princes of .
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And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, The of from the mountains of the East: ‘Come, me , And come, execrate .’
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How shall I , whom hath not cursed? And how shall I execrate, whom hath not execrated?
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- 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
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Who hath counted the dust of , Or numbered the stock of ? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let mine end be like his!
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And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.’
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And he answered and said: ‘Must I not take heed to speak that which putteth in my mouth?’
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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 me them from thence.’
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- 14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every .
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And he said unto Balak: ‘Stand here by thy burnt-, while I go toward a meeting yonder.’
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And met Balaam, and put a in his mouth, and said: ‘Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.’
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And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-, and the princes of with him. And Balak said unto him: ‘What hath spoken?’
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And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and ; Give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor:
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- 19 is not a man, that He should lie; Neither the son of man, that He should : When He hath said, will He not do it? Or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?
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Behold, I am bidden to ; And when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back.
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None hath beheld iniquity in , Neither hath one seen perverseness in ; The his is with him, And the shouting for the King is among them.
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Jeremiah 50:20 Exodus 29:45-46 Romans 4:7-8 Matthew 1:23 Psalm 32:5 Psalm 46:7 Isaiah 41:10 Romans 8:1 Isaiah 8:10 Micah 7:18-20 Exodus 33:14-16 Isaiah 1:18 Luke 19:37-38 Deuteronomy 33:5 Ezekiel 48:35 Exodus 34:9 2 Corinthians 2:14 Judges 6:13 Exodus 13:21 Psalm 103:12 Psalm 89:15-18 Psalm 23:4 Isaiah 33:22 Psalm 47:5-7 2 Corinthians 5:19 Romans 6:14 2 Corinthians 6:16 Isaiah 38:17 Psalm 118:15 Isaiah 12:6 Psalm 97:1 Hosea 14:2-4 Psalm 46:11 Psalm 32:2 2 Chronicles 13:12 -
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who brought them forth out of Is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.
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For there is no enchantment with , Neither is there any divination with ; Now is it said of and of : ‘What hath wrought!’
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Joshua 13:22 Micah 6:4-5 Luke 10:18-19 Numbers 24:1 Matthew 12:27 Numbers 22:6-7 Acts 15:12 Acts 4:16 1 Thessalonians 1:8-9 Acts 5:14 Psalm 136:13-20 John 11:47 Psalm 64:9 Psalm 126:2-3 Isaiah 63:9-12 Isaiah 41:4 Acts 5:12 Psalm 31:19 Daniel 9:15 Matthew 12:25 Micah 7:15 Revelation 12:9 Acts 10:38 Romans 16:20 Galatians 1:23-24 Matthew 16:18 - 24 Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up; He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the of the slain.
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And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Neither them at all, nor them at all.’
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But Balaam answered and said unto Balak: ‘Told not I thee, saying: All that speaketh, that I must do?’
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And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please that thou mayest me them from thence.’
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And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
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And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.’
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- 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every .