Numbers 24:15-17

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Balaam’s Last Message

¹⁵Then Balaam gave this message:

“This message is from Balaam son of Beor.
    I am speaking about things I see clearly.
¹⁶I heard this message from God.
    I learned what God Most High taught me.
I saw what God All-Powerful showed me.
    I humbly tell what I clearly see.

¹⁷“I see him coming, but not now.
    I see him coming, but not soon.
A star will come from the family of Jacob.
    A new ruler will come from the Israelites.
He will smash the heads of the Moabites
    and crush the heads of all the sons of Sheth.^[a]

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:17 sons of Sheth Or “Seth.” Seth was Adam’s third son. This might be like the phrases “son of Man” (Adam) and “son of Enosh” and mean simply “all these people.”