And
Balac and Balam offered on every altar an ox and a ram. And Balam
said unto Balac: stond by the sacrifice, while I go to wete
whether the LORD will come and meet me, and whatsoever he sheweth
me, I will tell thee, and he went forthwith. And God came unto
Balam, and Balam said unto him: I have prepared seven altars, and
have offered upon every altar, an ox and a ram. And the LORD put a
saying in Balam's mouth and said: go again to Balac and say on
this wise. And he went again unto him and lo, he stood by his
sacrifice, both he and all the lords of Moab. And he began his
parable and said: Balac the king of Moab hath fetched me from
Mesopotamia out of the mountains of the east saying: come and
curse me Iacob, come and defy me Israel. How shall I curse whom
God curseth not and how shall I defy whom the LORD defieth not?
from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold
him: Lo, the people shall dwell by himself and shall not be
reckoned among other nations. Who can tell the dust of Iacob and
the number of the fourth part of Israel. I pray God that my soul,
may die the death of the righteous, and that my last end may be
like his. And Balac said unto Balam, what hast thou done unto me?
I fetched thee to curse mine enemies: and behold, thou blessest
them.
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