Numbers 22:5
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5 He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is on the Euphrates,[a] in the land of Amaw,[b] to summon him, saying, “A people has come out of Egypt; they have spread over the face of the earth, and they have settled next to me.(A)
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Numbers 22:6
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6 Come now, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”(A)
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Numbers 25:1
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Worship of Baal of Peor
25 While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.(A)
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Joshua 4:19
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19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.(A)
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Joshua 5:9
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9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And so that place is called Gilgal[a] to this day.
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- 5.9 In Heb Gilgal is related to the verb rolled
Joshua 5:10
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The Passover at Gilgal
10 While the Israelites were camped in Gilgal, they kept the Passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho.(A)
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Judges 5:11
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11 To the sound of musicians[a] at the watering places,
there they repeat the triumphs of the Lord,
the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel.
Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.(A)
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- 5.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Samuel 12:7
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7 Now, therefore, take your stand so that I may enter into judgment with you before the Lord, and I will declare to you[a] all the righteous acts of the Lord that he performed for you and for your ancestors.(A)
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- 12.7 Gk: Heb lacks and I will declare to you
Revelation 2:14
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14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel, so that they would eat food sacrificed to idols and engage in sexual immorality.[a](A)
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- 2.14 Or prostitution
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