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Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.
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He came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken?
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He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:
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God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the 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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Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can`t reverse it.
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He has not saw iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yahweh his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them.
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God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
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Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!
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Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
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Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
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But Balaam answered Balak, Didn`t I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?