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Then Balaam[a] 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!”
How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?
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!

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 23:7 Heb he

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