Numbers 23 (AMP) - Then Balaam said to Balak,

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Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams here.”

Num 23:2Balak did just as Balaam had said, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Num 23:3Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate hill.

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Num 23:4

Now God met Balaam, who said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

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Num 23:5Then the LORD put a speech in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”

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Num 23:6Balaam returned to Balak, and behold, he was standing by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the leaders of Moab.

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Num 23:7Balaam took up his [first] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram (Syria),

from the mountains of the east, [saying,]

‘Come, curse [the descendants of] Jacob for me;

And come, [violently] denounce Israel.’

Num 23:8

“How shall I curse those whom God has not cursed?

Or how can I [violently] denounce those the LORD has not denounced?

Num 23:9

“For from the top of the rocks I see Israel,

And from the hills I look at him.

Behold, the people [of Israel] shall dwell alone

And will not be reckoned among the nations.

Num 23:10

“Who can count the dust (the descendants) of Jacob

And the number of even the fourth part of Israel?

Let me die the death of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God],

And let my end be like his!”

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Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but here you have [thoroughly] blessed them instead!”

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Num 23:12Balaam answered, “Must I not be obedient and careful to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”

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Balak said to him, “Come with me, I implore you, to another place from where you can see them, although you will see only the nearest and not all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

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Num 23:14So he took Balaam to the field of Zophim to the top of [Mount] Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Num 23:15Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I go to meet the LORD over there.”

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Num 23:16Then the LORD met Balaam and put a speech in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak and you shall speak thus.”

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Num 23:17When Balaam returned to Balak, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”

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Num 23:18Balaam took up his [second] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Rise up, O Balak, and hear;

Listen [closely] to me, son of Zippor.

Num 23:19

“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 and fulfill it?

Num 23:20

“Behold, I have received His command to bless [Israel].

He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.