He bought a parcel of land with the wages of his iniquity, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his insides spilled out.
You, whose company I enjoyed, at whose side I walked in the house of God.
Cast your care upon the Lord, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.
Then the Lord said to me, Throw it in the treasury—the handsome price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the Lord.
I will reward you very handsomely and will do anything you ask of me. Come, lay a curse on this people for me.”
So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian, themselves experts in divination, left and went to Balaam, to whom they gave Balak’s message.
To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one—to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately