22 5 King Balak sendeth for Balaam to curse the Israelites. 12 The Lord forbiddeth him to go. 22 The Angel of the Lord meeteth him, and his ass speaketh. 38 Balaam protesteth that he will speak nothing, but that which the Lord putteth in his mouth.

After, the children of Israel departed and pitched in the plain of Moab on the [a]other side of Jordan from Jericho.

¶ Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

And the Moabites were sore afraid of the people, because they were many, and Moab [b]fretted against the children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 22:1 Being at Jericho, it was beyond Jordan: but where the Israelites were, it was on this side.
  2. Numbers 22:3 Or, was vexed.

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