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So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjath Huzoth.

So it was, the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal, that from there he might observe the extent of the people.

Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a desolate height.

So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

So he answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?"

So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

So he came to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"

So Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not tell you, saying, "All that the LORD speaks, that I must do'?"

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland. [fn]

So Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

So he took up his oracle and said: "The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened;

But ships shall come from the coasts of Cyprus, [fn] And they shall afflict Asshur and afflict Eber,And so shall Amalek, [fn] until he perishes."

So Balaam rose and departed and returned to his place; Balak also went his way.

So Israel was joined to Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD was aroused against Israel.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Every one of you kill his men who were joined to Baal of Peor."

and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.

"Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the children of Israel, because he was zealous with My zeal among them, so that I did not consume the children of Israel in My zeal.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying:

For the LORD had said of them, "They shall surely die in the wilderness." So there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

So Moses brought their case before the LORD.