Numbers 23:8-10

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⁸How can I curse those God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?

⁹For from the top of the rocks I see Israel, and from the hills I behold him. Behold, the people [of Israel] shall ^[a]dwell alone and shall not be reckoned and esteemed among the nations.

¹⁰Who can count the dust (the descendants) of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God], and let my last end be like theirs!^(A)

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Footnotes

Numbers 23:9 The literal fulfillment of this prophecy has been obvious during the more than thirty-four centuries since it was spoken. The Jews have always been separate as a nation from other peoples. Though conquered many times, they have never been absorbed by their conquerors or lost their identity. The prophecy had to become true, for “the Lord put [it]... in Balaam’s mouth” (Num. 23:5).