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“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
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And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.”
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But he said to him, “I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.”
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And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.
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But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’
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I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”
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But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
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Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
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But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
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And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”
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And the people of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”
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And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”
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And he said to them, “Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the Lord speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
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for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.’”
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Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”
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And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height,
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And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
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Therefore now flee to your own place. I said, ‘I will certainly honor you,’ but the Lord has held you back from honor.”
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And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days.”
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And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”