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12 Balaam replied, “Is it not what the Lord puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?”

The Second Oracle. 13 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place[a] from which you can see them; but you will see only some, not all of them, and from there lay a curse on them for me.” 14 So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:13 To another place: Balak thought that if Balaam would view Israel from a different site, he could deliver a different kind of omen.

12 He answered, “Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”(A)

Balaam’s Second Message

13 Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place(B) where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp.(C) And from there, curse them for me.(D) 14 So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah,(E) and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.(F)

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