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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s First Message</span></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">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><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Third Message</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">Then Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.23.29"><span class="label">29</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 v30" data-usfm="NUM.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="NUM.24">
         <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">Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to bless Israel, he did not resort to divination as at other times, but turned his face toward the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">&#8220;The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,</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">the prophecy of one who hears the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">who sees a vision from the Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;How beautiful are your tents, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">your dwelling places, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;Like valleys they spread out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">like gardens beside a river,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">like aloes planted by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">like cedars 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">Water will flow from their buckets;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">their seed will have abundant water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Their king will be greater than Agag;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">their kingdom will be exalted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;God brought them out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">they have the strength of a wild ox.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">They devour hostile nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">and break their bones in pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">with their arrows they pierce them.</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">Like a lion they crouch and lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">like a lioness&#8212;who dares to rouse them?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">&#8220;May those who bless you be blessed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">and those who curse you be cursed!&#8221;</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">Then Balak&#8217;s anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him, &#8220;I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now leave at once and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept you from being rewarded.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Balaam answered Balak, &#8220;Did I not tell the messengers you sent me, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8216;Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;and I must say only what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8217;? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you of what this people will do to your people in days to come.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Fourth Message</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">&#8220;The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,</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">the prophecy of one who hears the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">who has knowledge from the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">who sees a vision from the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:</span></span></div><div class="b"></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">&#8220;I see him, but not now;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">I behold him, but not near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">A star will come out of Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">a scepter will rise out of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">He will crush the foreheads of Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">the skulls</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:17 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:17 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">Moab, / batter</span></span></span><span class="content"> all the people of Sheth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">all the noisy boasters</span></span></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">Edom will be conquered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">Seir, his enemy, will be conquered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">but Israel will grow strong.</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">A ruler will come out of Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">and destroy the survivors of the city.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Fifth Message</span></div><div class="p"><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">Then Balaam saw Amalek and spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">&#8220;Amalek was first among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">but their end will be utter destruction.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Sixth Message</span></div><div class="p"><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">Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Your dwelling place is secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">your nest is set 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">yet you Kenites will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">when Ashur takes you captive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Seventh Message</span></div><div class="p"><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">Then he spoke his message:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Alas! Who can live when God does this?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:23 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">The people from the islands will gather from the north.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><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">Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">they will subdue Ashur and Eber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">but they too will come to ruin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><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">Then Balaam got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.7.16"><span class="label">[16]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you so dull?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For it doesn&#8217;t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He went on: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What comes out of a person is what defiles them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For it is from within, out of a person&#8217;s heart, that evil thoughts come&#8212;sexual immorality, theft, murder,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All these evils come from inside and defile a person.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Honors a Syrophoenician Woman&#8217;s Faith</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:24 </span><span class="ft">Many early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Tyre and Sidon</span></span></span><span class="content"> He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;First let the children eat all they want,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he told her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;for it is not right to take the children&#8217;s bread and toss it to the dogs.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;even the dogs under the table eat the children&#8217;s crumbs.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then he told her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.7.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.7.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:31 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Ten Cities</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man&#8217;s ears. Then he spit and touched the man&#8217;s tongue. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, </span><span class="tl"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Ephphatha!&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> (which means </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be opened!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">). </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.7.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">At this, the man&#8217;s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.7.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.7.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.7.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">People were overwhelmed with amazement. &#8220;He has done everything well,&#8221; they said. &#8220;He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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