Numbers 23:7-12

Balaam’s First Oracle: Israel Blessed

Numbers 23:7-12
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And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
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How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
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I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.
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And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.
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He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
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