Numbers 24:17

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¹⁷I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near—
a star shall come out of Jacob,
    and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the borderlands^[a] of Moab,
    and the territory^[b] of all the Shethites.

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Numbers 24:17 Or forehead
Numbers 24:17 Some Mss read skull

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