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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Balaam said, &#8220;Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.&#8221; Then he went off to a barren height.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God met with him, and Balaam said, &#8220;I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put a word in Balaam&#8217;s mouth and said, &#8220;Go back to Balak and give him this word.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Balaam spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Balak brought me from Aram,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">&#8216;Come,&#8217; he said, &#8216;curse Jacob for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">come, denounce Israel.&#8217;</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 can I curse</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">those whom God has not cursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">How can I denounce</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">those whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not denounced?</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">From the rocky peaks I see them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">from the heights I view them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">I see a people who live apart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">and do not consider themselves one of 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="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">or number even a fourth 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="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">and may my final end be like theirs!&#8221;</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">Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;Must I not speak what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> puts in my mouth?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Second Message</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">Then Balak said to him, &#8220;Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, &#8220;Go back to Balak and give him this word.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, &#8220;What did the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> say?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Arise, Balak, and listen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">hear me, 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 is not human, that he should lie,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">not a human being, that he should change his mind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Does he speak and then not act?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Does he promise and not fulfill?</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">I have received a command to bless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="content">he has blessed, and I cannot change it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;No misfortune is seen in Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">no misery observed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">He has not looked on Jacob&#8217;s offenses / or on the wrongs found</span></span></span><span class="content"> 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"> their God is with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">the shout of the King is 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="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="content">they have the strength of a wild ox.</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">There is no divination against</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">no evil omens against</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">It will now be said of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">and of Israel, &#8216;See what God has done!&#8217;</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">The people rise like a lioness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">they rouse themselves like a lion</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">that does not rest till it devours its prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">and drinks the blood of its victims.&#8221;</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">Then Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Balaam answered, &#8220;Did I not tell you I must do whatever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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