Numbers 23
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Numbers 23:14-24

14So he took Balaam to the field of Zophim to the top of [Mount] Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

15Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I go to meet the Lord over there.”

16Then the Lord met Balaam and put a speech in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak and you shall speak thus.”

17When Balaam returned to Balak, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

18Balaam took up his [second] discourse (oracle) and said: “Rise up, O Balak, and hear; Listen [closely] to me, son of Zippor.

19God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?

20Behold, I have received His command to bless [Israel]. He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

21God has not observed wickedness in Jacob [for he is forgiven], Nor has He seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with Israel, And the shout of their King is among the people.

22God brought them out of Egypt; They have the strength of a wild ox.

23For there is no enchantment or omen against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel. At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob And to Israel, what has God done!

24Behold, a people rises up like a lioness And lifts itself up like a lion; He will not lie down until he devours the prey And drinks the blood of the slain.”

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