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King James Version

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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These six </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> doth the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hate:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">Yea, seven </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> an abomination unto him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A proud look, a lying tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">And hands that shed innocent blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">Feet that be swift in running to mischief,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A false witness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> speaketh lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">And he that soweth discord among brethren.</span></span></div>
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The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on </span><span class="add"><span class="content">every</span></span><span class="content"> altar a bullock and a ram. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content"> an high place. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon </span><span class="add"><span class="content">every</span></span><span class="content"> altar a bullock and a ram. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And he took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">Out of the mountains of the east,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Saying</span></span><span class="content">, Come, curse me Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">And come, defy Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">How shall I curse, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">whom</span></span><span class="content"> God hath not cursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">Or how shall I defy, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">whom</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath not defied?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For from the top of the rocks I see him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">And from the hills I behold him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">Lo, the people shall dwell alone,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">And shall not be reckoned among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who can count the dust of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">And the number of the fourth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">part</span></span><span class="content"> of Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">Let me die the death of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">And let my last end be like his!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> altogether. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath put in my mouth?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">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 </span><span class="add"><span class="content">every</span></span><span class="content"> altar. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span></span><span class="content"> yonder. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">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 </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> spoken? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And he took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">Rise up, Balak, and hear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not a man, that he should lie;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Neither the son of man, that he should repent:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Hath he said, and shall he not do </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it?</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Behold, I have received </span><span class="add"><span class="content">commandment</span></span><span class="content"> to bless:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="content">And he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> his God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> with him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">And the shout of a king </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">God brought them out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="content">He hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Surely </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> no enchantment against Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">Neither </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is there</span></span><span class="content"> any divination against Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">What hath God wrought!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">And lift up himself as a young lion:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">He shall not lie down until he eat </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of</span></span><span class="content"> the prey,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">And drink the blood of the slain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> speaketh, that I must do?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.23.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">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. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on </span><span class="add"><span class="content">every</span></span><span class="content"> altar.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And when Balaam saw that it pleased the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in his tents</span></span><span class="content"> according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">Balaam the son of Beor hath said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">And the man whose eyes are open hath said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He hath said, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> heard the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">Which saw the vision of the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">Falling </span><span class="add"><span class="content">into a trance</span></span><span class="content">, but having his eyes open:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> thy tabernacles, O Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As the valleys are they spread forth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">As gardens by the river's side,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">As the trees of lign aloes which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath planted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> as cedar trees beside the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He shall pour the water out of his buckets,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">And his seed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> in many waters,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">And his king shall be higher than Agag,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">And his kingdom shall be exalted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">God brought him forth out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">He hath as it were the strength of an unicorn:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">He shall eat up the nations his enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">And shall break their bones,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">And pierce </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> through with his arrows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He couched, he lay down as a lion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">And as a great lion: who shall stir him up?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">Blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he that blesseth thee,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">And cursed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> he that curseth thee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> these three times. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath kept thee back from honour. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, to do </span><span class="add"><span class="content">either</span></span><span class="content"> good or bad of mine own mind; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but</span></span><span class="content"> what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> saith, that will I speak? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And now, behold, I go unto my people: come </span><span class="add"><span class="content">therefore, and</span></span><span class="content"> I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And he took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">Balaam the son of Beor hath said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">And the man whose eyes are open hath said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He hath said, which heard the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">And knew the knowledge of the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> saw the vision of the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">Falling </span><span class="add"><span class="content">into a trance</span></span><span class="content">, but having his eyes open:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I shall see him, but not now:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">I shall behold him, but not nigh:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">There shall come a Star out of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">And shall smite the corners of Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">And destroy all the children of Sheth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And Edom shall be a possession,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">And Israel shall do valiantly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">And shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">Amalek </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> the first of the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">But his latter end </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> that he perish for ever.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">Strong is thy dwellingplace,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">And thou puttest thy nest in a rock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And he took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And ships </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall come</span></span><span class="content"> from the coast of Chittim,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">And shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">And he also shall perish for ever.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and 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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">When thou art come into the hand of thy friend;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">Go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Give not sleep to thine eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">Nor slumber to thine eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of the hunter</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Go to the ant, thou sluggard;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">Consider her ways, and be wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Which having no guide,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">Overseer, or ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Provideth her meat in the summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> gathereth her food in the harvest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> a little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">A little folding of the hands to sleep:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">And thy want as an armed man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A naughty person, a wicked man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">Walketh with a froward mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">He teacheth with his fingers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Frowardness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">He soweth discord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These six </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> doth the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hate:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">Yea, seven </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> an abomination unto him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A proud look, a lying tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">And hands that shed innocent blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">Feet that be swift in running to mischief,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A false witness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> speaketh lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">And he that soweth discord among brethren.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, keep thy father's commandment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">And forsake not the law of thy mother:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Bind them continually upon thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> tie them about thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When thou goest, it shall lead thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">when</span></span><span class="content"> thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For the commandment </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a lamp; and the law </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">And reproofs of instruction </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the way of life:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">To keep thee from the evil woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For by means of a whorish woman </span><span class="add"><span class="content">a man is brought</span></span><span class="content"> to a piece of bread:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Can a man take fire in his bosom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">And his clothes not be burned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Can one go upon hot coals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">And his feet not be burned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Men</span></span><span class="content"> do not despise a thief, if he steal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">To satisfy his soul when he is hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if</span></span><span class="content"> he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">He shall give all the substance of his house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">He </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> doeth it destroyeth his own soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">A wound and dishonour shall he get;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">And his reproach shall not be wiped away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For jealousy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the rage of a man:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He will not regard any ransom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="content">Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">His Baptism and Temptation</span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">John the Baptist</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Jud&#230;a, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">The voice of one crying in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">Prepare ye the way of the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">Make his paths straight.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Jud&#230;a, and all the region round about Jordan, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to </span><span class="add"><span class="content">our</span></span><span class="content"> father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">with</span></span><span class="content"> fire: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">whose fan </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Baptism of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And Jesus answering said unto him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Suffer </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it to be so</span></span><span class="content"> now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.</span></span><span class="content"> Then he suffered him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</span></span></div>
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