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17 I will pay you very well and do whatever you tell me. Just come and curse these people for me!”

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17 because I will reward you handsomely(A) and do whatever you say. Come and put a curse(B) on these people for me.”

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11 Now get out of here! Go back home! I promised to reward you richly, but the Lord has kept you from your reward.”

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11 Now leave at once and go home!(A) I said I would reward you handsomely,(B) but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded.”

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26 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?[a] Is anything worth more than your soul?

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Footnotes

  1. 16:26 Or your self? also in 16:26b.

26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

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so he promised with a vow to give her anything she wanted.

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that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

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Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “I will give it all to you,” he said, “if you will kneel down and worship me.”

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Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

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Then Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said, “Haman has set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet[a] tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to impale Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.”

“Then impale Haman on it!” the king ordered.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:9 Hebrew 50 cubits [23 meters].

Then Harbona,(A) one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[a](B) stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.”

The king said, “Impale him on it!”(C)

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  1. Esther 7:9 That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters

11 and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other nobles and officials.

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11 Haman boasted(A) to them about his vast wealth, his many sons,(B) and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

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The Festival of Harvest

“Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest.

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The Festival of Weeks(A)

Count off seven weeks(B) from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.(C)

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29 Balaam again told Balak, “Build me seven altars, and prepare seven young bulls and seven rams for me to sacrifice.” 30 So Balak did as Balaam ordered and offered a young bull and a ram on each altar.

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29 Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.” 30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.(A)

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Balak followed his instructions, and the two of them sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar.

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offerings, and I will go to see if the Lord will respond to me. Then I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.” So Balaam went alone to the top of a bare hill,

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Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.(A)

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me.(B) Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.

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37 “Didn’t I send you an urgent invitation? Why didn’t you come right away?” Balak asked Balaam. “Didn’t you believe me when I said I would reward you richly?”

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37 Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?”

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Please come and curse these people for me because they are too powerful for me. Then perhaps I will be able to conquer them and drive them from the land. I know that blessings fall on any people you bless, and curses fall on people you curse.”

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Now come and put a curse(A) on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land.(B) For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

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