The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Numbers 23:5 (KJV) And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
 
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Numbers 23:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
 
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Numbers 23:7
New International Version (NIV)

Then Balaam spoke his message:


“Balak brought me from Aram,
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel.’
 
Numbers 23:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] "As I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people who dwells apart, And will not be reckoned among the nations.
 
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Numbers 23:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!"
 
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Numbers 23:12 (KJV) And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?
 
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Numbers 23:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there."
 
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Numbers 23:14 (KJV) 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 every altar.
 
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Numbers 23:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] He came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"
 
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Numbers 23:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
 
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Numbers 23:21 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] "He has not observed misfortune in Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; The LORD his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them.
 
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Numbers 23:22
New International Version (NIV)

God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox.
 
Numbers 23:23 (NASB)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] "For there is no omen against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel; At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob And to Israel, what God has done!
 
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