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Numbers 23:5-22

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5And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
6Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:
7And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
8How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
9I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.
11And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.
12He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
13Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.
14And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,
15He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.
16And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.
17Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?
18But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?
20I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
21There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.
22God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

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