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Numbers 23 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Balaam’s First Message

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:2 - Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - God met with him, and Balaam said, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:6 - So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - 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.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:8 - How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 - Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 - Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:12 - He answered, “Must I not speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?”

Balaam’s Second Message

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then Balak said to him, “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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - The LORD met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, “What did the LORD say?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:18 - Then he spoke his message: “Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:19 - God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:20 - I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - “No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed[fn] in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:22 - God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 - There is no divination against[fn] Jacob, no evil omens against[fn] Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:26 - Balaam answered, “Did I not tell you I must do whatever the LORD says?”

Balaam’s Third Message

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:28 - And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:30 - Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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