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But God became angry because he was going, and the angel of Yahweh stood in the road as an adversary to him; he was riding on his donkey, and two servants were with him.

Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I came to you now. Am I really able to speak anything at all? I speak the word that God puts in my mouth."

And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar."

How can I curse whom God has not cursed, and how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

He has no regard for evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God is with him, and a shout of a king is among them.

God, who brings them out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for them.

Because there is no sorcery against Jacob, and there is no divination against Israel. Now it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done!

Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be acceptable to God, and you will curse for me from there."

Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it.

God, who brings him out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for him. He will devour the nations who are his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce them with his arrows.

Again he uttered his oracle and said, "Woe, who will live when God establishes this?

and it will be for him and his offspring after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.'"

"Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community

"Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you are today as the stars of the heaven in number.

Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, may he add to you as you are now a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he promised you.

"Then we set out from Horeb, and we went through the whole of that great and terrible desert that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and so we came up to Kadesh Barnea.

I said to you, ‘You have reached the hill country of the Amorites that Yahweh our God is giving to us.

See, Yahweh your God has set before you the land; go up and possess it as Yahweh the God of your ancestors said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.'