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Balaam’s Oracles
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|Números 23:1| Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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|Números 23:2| So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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|Números 23:3| Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the LORD 1 will meet with me. I will tell you whatever He reveals to me.” So he went to a barren hill.
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|Números 23:4| God 2 met with him and Balaam said to Him, “I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”
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|Números 23:5| Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”
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|Números 23:6| So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.
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Balaam’s First Oracle
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|Números 23:7| Balaam proclaimed his poem:Balak brought me from Aram; a the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: “Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel!” b
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|Números 23:8|How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the LORD has not denounced?
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|Números 23:9|I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; c it does not consider itself among the nations.
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|Números 23:10|Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered the dust clouds 3 of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my life be like theirs.
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