The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Numbers 23:25 (NASB)
[SUP]25 [/SUP] Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!"

 

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Numbers 23:26 (ESV)
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the LORD says, that I must do’?”

 

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Numbers 23:27 (NASB)
[SUP]27 [/SUP] Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be agreeable with God that you curse them for me from there."

 

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Numbers 23:28 (KJV) And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

 

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Numbers 23:29 (NASB)
[SUP]29 [/SUP] Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

 

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Numbers 23:30
New International Version (NIV)

Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

 

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Numbers 24:1 (NASB)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times to seek omens but he set his face toward the wilderness.

 

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Numbers 24:2 (ESV)
And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,

 

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Numbers 24:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] He took up his discourse and said, "The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened;

 

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Numbers 24:4
King James Version(KJV)

4.)He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

 

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Numbers 24:5 (NASB)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] How fair are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwellings, O Israel!

 

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Numbers 24:6 (KJV)
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

 

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Numbers 24:7 (NASB)
[SUP]7 [/SUP] "Water will flow from his buckets, And his seed will be by many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.

 

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Numbers 24:8
New International Version (NIV)

God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox.
They devour hostile nations
and break their bones in pieces;
with their arrows they pierce them.

 

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Numbers 24:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] "He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who curses you."

 

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Numbers 24:10
King James Version(KJV)

10.)And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.

 

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Numbers 24:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] "Therefore, flee to your place now. I said I would honor you greatly, but behold, the LORD has held you back from honor."

 

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Numbers 24:12 (KJV)
And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

 

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Numbers 24:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] 'Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything contrary to the command of the LORD, either good or bad, of my own accord. What the LORD speaks, that I will speak'?

 

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Numbers 24:14
New International Version (NIV)

And now, behold, I am going to my people; come, and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”