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Numbers Chapter 23

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The chapter records the Israelite women who had sexual relations with men from other nations and the resulting divine curse that God pronounces on them and their families. It also instructs the men of Israel to keep a distance from these women, emphasizing the seriousness of sexual impurity and the need for moral discipline.

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(1) And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
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Numbers 23:29Ezekiel 33:31Jude 1:11Exodus 20:24Exodus 27:1Exodus 27:2Exodus 27:3Exodus 27:4Exodus 27:5Exodus 27:6Exodus 27:7Exodus 27:8

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Numbers 23:29Isaiah 22:16II Samuel 24:22Deuteronomy 29:15I Samuel 21:9II Kings 3:11

(2) And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
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Numbers 23:14Numbers 23:30

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(3) And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
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Genesis 8:20Genesis 22:2Genesis 22:7Genesis 22:8Genesis 22:13Exodus 18:12Leviticus 1:1Numbers 23:15Numbers 22:8Numbers 22:9Numbers 22:31Numbers 22:32

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Philippians 4:8Numbers 23:2Numbers 22:36Numbers 23:15Leviticus 11:42Numbers 23:27

(4) And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
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Numbers 23:16Numbers 22:9Numbers 22:20Numbers 23:1Isaiah 58:3Isaiah 58:4Matthew 20:12Luke 18:12John 16:2Romans 3:27Ephesians 2:9

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(5) And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
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Numbers 23:16Numbers 22:35Deuteronomy 18:18Proverbs 16:1Proverbs 16:9Isaiah 51:16Isaiah 59:21Jeremiah 1:9Luke 12:12John 11:51

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(6) And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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Judges 11:18Ruth 1:22Exodus 8:26Jeremiah 36:12Psalms 68:27Isaiah 15:1

(7) And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
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Numbers 23:18Numbers 24:3Numbers 24:15Numbers 24:23Job 27:1Job 29:1Psalms 78:2Ezekiel 17:2Ezekiel 20:49Micah 2:4Habakkuk 2:6Matthew 13:33

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(8) How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
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Numbers 23:20Numbers 23:23Isaiah 44:25Isaiah 47:12Isaiah 47:13

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(9) For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
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Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Exodus 33:16Deuteronomy 33:28Esther 3:8II Corinthians 6:17Titus 2:14I Peter 2:9Deuteronomy 32:8Ezra 9:2Jeremiah 46:28Amos 9:9

(10) Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
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Genesis 13:16Genesis 22:17Genesis 28:14Numbers 2:9Numbers 2:16Numbers 2:24Numbers 2:31Psalms 37:37Psalms 116:15Proverbs 14:32Isaiah 57:1Isaiah 57:2

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(11) And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
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(12) And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
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(13) And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
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(14) And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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Numbers 21:20Deuteronomy 3:27Deuteronomy 4:49Deuteronomy 34:1Numbers 23:1Numbers 23:2Numbers 23:29Isaiah 1:10Isaiah 1:11Isaiah 46:6Hosea 12:11

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(15) And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.
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Numbers 23:3Numbers 22:8

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(16) And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
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Numbers 23:5Numbers 22:35Numbers 24:1

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(17) And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
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Numbers 23:26I Samuel 3:17Jeremiah 37:17

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(18) And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
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Judges 3:20

(19) God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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I Samuel 15:29Psalms 89:35Habakkuk 2:3Malachi 3:6Luke 21:33Romans 11:29Titus 1:2Hebrews 6:18James 1:17I Chronicles 17:17Micah 7:20

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(20) Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
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(21) He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
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(22) God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
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(23) Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
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(24) Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
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Numbers 24:8Numbers 24:9Genesis 49:9Deuteronomy 33:20Psalms 17:12Proverbs 30:30Isaiah 31:4Amos 3:8Revelation 5:5Numbers 24:17Genesis 49:27Daniel 2:44

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(25) And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
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Psalms 2:1Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:3

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(26) But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
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Numbers 23:12Numbers 23:13Numbers 22:18Numbers 22:38Numbers 24:12Numbers 24:13I Kings 22:14II Chronicles 18:13Acts 4:19Acts 4:20Acts 5:29

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(27) And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
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Numbers 23:19Numbers 23:20Job 23:13Proverbs 19:21Proverbs 21:30Isaiah 14:27Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 46:11Malachi 3:6Romans 11:29

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(28) And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
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Numbers 21:20

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(29) And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
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Numbers 23:1Numbers 23:2

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(30) And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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