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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."
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Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your burnt offerings while I go aside. Perhaps the
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Then Balaam 2 uttered his oracle, saying:
"Balak has brought me from Aram,
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
"Come, curse Jacob for me;
Come, denounce Israel!'
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How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
How can I denounce those whom the
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For from the top of the crags I see him,
from the hills I behold him.
Here is a people living alone,
and not reckoning itself among the nations!
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Who can count the dust of Jacob,
or number the dust-cloud 3 of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright,
and let my end be like his!"
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Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but now you have done nothing but bless them."
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He answered, "Must I not take care to say what the