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Then Balaam 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!'

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!

So Balak said to him, "Come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only part of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there."

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

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

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."

Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

God who brings him out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for him; he shall devour the nations that are his foes and break their bones. He shall strike with his arrows.

yet Kain is destined for burning. How long shall Asshur take you away captive?"

It shall be for him and for his descendants after him a covenant of perpetual priesthood, because he was zealous for his God, and made atonement for the Israelites.'"

for they have harassed you by the trickery with which they deceived you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister; she was killed on the day of the plague that resulted from Peor."

To these the land shall be apportioned for inheritance according to the number of names.

The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and upward; for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.

For the Lord had said of them, "They shall die in the wilderness." Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

"Our father died in the wilderness; he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin; and he had no sons.

And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. It shall be for the Israelites a statute and ordinance, as the Lord commanded Moses."

But he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the decision of the Urim before the Lord ; at his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the Israelites with him, the whole congregation."

Command the Israelites, and say to them: My offering, the food for my offerings by fire, my pleasing odor, you shall take care to offer to me at its appointed time.

also one-tenth of an ephah of choice flour for a grain offering, mixed with one-fourth of a hin of beaten oil.

It is a regular burnt offering, ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord .