Numbers 23 : 1 (HCSB)
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."
Numbers 23 : 2 (HCSB)
So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23 : 3 (HCSB)
Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the LORD will meet with me. I will tell you whatever He reveals to me." So he went to a barren hill.
Numbers 23 : 4 (HCSB)
God met with him and Balaam said to Him, "I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar."
Numbers 23 : 5 (HCSB)
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak and say what I tell you."
Numbers 23 : 6 (HCSB)
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.
Numbers 23 : 7 (HCSB)
Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: "Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel!"
Numbers 23 : 8 (HCSB)
How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23 : 9 (HCSB)
I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; it does not consider itself among the nations.
Numbers 23 : 10 (HCSB)
Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered the dust clouds of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my *life be like theirs.
Numbers 23 : 11 (HCSB)
"What have you done to me?" Balak asked Balaam. "I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed *them !"
Numbers 23 : 12 (HCSB)
He answered, "Shouldn't I say exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?"
Numbers 23 : 13 (HCSB)
Then Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won't see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me."
Numbers 23 : 14 (HCSB)
So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23 : 15 (HCSB)
Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek *the LORD over there."
Numbers 23 : 16 (HCSB)
The LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then He said, "Return to Balak and say what I tell you."
Numbers 23 : 17 (HCSB)
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, "What did the LORD say?"
Numbers 23 : 18 (HCSB)
Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak, get up and listen; son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!
Numbers 23 : 19 (HCSB)
God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes His mind. Does He speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?
Numbers 23 : 20 (HCSB)
I have indeed received *a command to bless; since He has blessed, I cannot change it.
Numbers 23 : 21 (HCSB)
He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and there is rejoicing over the King among them.
Numbers 23 : 22 (HCSB)
God brought them out of Egypt; He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
Numbers 23 : 23 (HCSB)
There is no magic curse against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said about Jacob and Israel, "What *great things God has done!"
Numbers 23 : 24 (HCSB)
A people rise up like a lioness; They rouse themselves like a lion. They will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain.
Numbers 23 : 25 (HCSB)
Then Balak told Balaam, "Don't curse them and don't bless them!"
Numbers 23 : 26 (HCSB)
But Balaam answered him, "Didn't I tell you: Whatever the LORD says, I must do?"
Numbers 23 : 27 (HCSB)
Again Balak said to Balaam, "Please come. I will take you to another place. Maybe it will be agreeable to God that you can put a curse on them for me there."
Numbers 23 : 28 (HCSB)
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
Numbers 23 : 29 (HCSB)
Balaam told Balak, "Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."
Numbers 23 : 30 (HCSB)
So Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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