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God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.

Balaam answered the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.

Balaam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?

God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

He has not saw iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yahweh his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them.

God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.

Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

God brings him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, Shall break their bones in pieces, Smite [them] through with his arrows.

He says, who hears the words of God, Knows the knowledge of the Most High, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this?

and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

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

Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.