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23 There is no power that can defeat the people of Jacob.
    There is no magic that can stop the Israelites.
People will say this about Jacob and the Israelites:
    ‘Look at the great things God did!’[a]
24 The people are as strong as lions,
    and they fight like lions.
And a lion will not rest until it eats what it has caught,
    until it drinks the blood of what it has killed.”

25 Then Balak said to Balaam, “You didn’t ask for good things to happen to these people, but you didn’t ask for bad things to happen to them either!”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 23:23 Or “There is no fortunetelling in Jacob, no magic in Israel. God tells them immediately what he plans to do.”

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