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here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell.
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But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’
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They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
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Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
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I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together against me. They will meet their end in this wilderness; here they will die.”
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Why did you bring the Lord’s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here?
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but when we cried out to the Lord, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. “Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory.
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But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”
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“Spend the night here,” Balaam said to them, “and I will report back to you with the answer the Lord gives me.” So the Moabite officials stayed with him.
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Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else the Lord will tell me.”
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The angel of the Lord asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.
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Balaam’s First Message
Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.
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Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”
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Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?
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“And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.
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Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.
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Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
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Stages in Israel’s Journey
Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
