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Balak Sends More Honorable Princes
Numbers 22:15-21
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And Balak addeth yet to send princes, more numerous and honoured than these,
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and they come in unto Balaam, and say to him, `Thus said Balak son of Zippor, Be not, I pray thee, withheld from coming unto me,
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for very greatly I honour thee, and all that thou sayest unto me I do; and come, I pray thee, pierce for me this people.'
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And Balaam answereth and saith unto the servants of Balak, `If Balak doth give to me the fulness of his house of silver and gold, I am not able to pass over the command of Jehovah my God, to do a little or a great thing;
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and, now, abide, I pray you, in this place , you also, to-night; and I know what Jehovah is adding to speak with me.'
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And God cometh in unto Balaam, by night, and saith to him, `If to call for thee the men have come, rise, go with them, and only the thing which I speak unto thee--it thou dost do.'
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And Balaam riseth in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and goeth with the princes of Moab,
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