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Numbers 23:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can see them; but you will see only some, not all of them, and from there lay a curse on them for me.”

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Meanwhile the servants of the king of Aram said to him: “Their gods are mountain gods. That is why they defeated us. But if we fight them on level ground, we shall be sure to defeat them.

A man of God approached and said to the king of Israel: “The Lord says, Because Aram has said the Lord is a god of mountains, not a god of plains, I will give all this vast army into your power that you may know I am the Lord.”

He loved cursing; may it come upon him; he hated blessing; may none come to him.

My people, remember what Moab’s King Balak planned, and how Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him. Recall the passage from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the just deeds of the Lord.

The next morning Balak took Balaam up on Bamoth-baal, and from there he could see some of the people.

Now come, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I am. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed and whoever you curse is cursed.”

Balaam replied, “Is it not what the Lord puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?” The Second Oracle.

So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.

Then Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, prepared to war against Israel. He summoned Balaam, son of Beor, to curse you,




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