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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not transgress the commandment of the LORD to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak.

And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said;

He has said, who heard the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, who saw the vision of God, falling into a trance but having his eyes open;

And Edom shall be his possession; Seir, also the possession of his enemies, shall be his; and Israel shall gain strength.

And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable and said, Amalek is the chief of the nations; but in the end he shall perish for ever.

And he looked on the Kenites and took up his parable and said, Strong is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in a rock.

And he took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!

Then Balaam rose up and returned to his country; and Balak also went his way.

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay every one of you his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.

And, behold, one of the men of the children of Israel came to his brethren, and then he went in to a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel while they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand;

And he shall have it and his sons after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the children of Israel.

And the name of the Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the chief of the people of his fathers house in Midian.

To a large family you shall give a large inheritance and to a small family you shall give a small inheritance; every one shall receive his inheritance according to those that were numbered of him.

THEN came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Joah, and Hogla, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of those who revolted before the LORD in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sins and had no sons.

Why should the name of our father be lost from among his family because he had no son? Give to us therefore a possession among the brothers of our father.

And you shall say to the children of Israel, If a man dies and has no son, then you shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his fathers brothers.