And Balam said unto Balac: told I not
thy messengers which thou sentest unto me saying: If Balac would
give me his house full of silver and gold, I can not pass the
mouth of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind. What
the LORD sayeth, that must I speak. And now behold, I go unto my
people: come let me shew thee, what this people shall do to thy
folk in the latter days. And he began his parable and said: Balam
the son of Beor hath said, and the man that hath his eye open hath
said, and he hath said that heareth the words of God and hath the
knowledge of the most high and beholdeth the vision of the
almighty, and when he falleth down hath his eyes opened. I see him
but not now, I behold him but not nye. There shall come a star of
Iacob and rise a scepter of Israel, which shall smite the coasts
of Moab and undermine all the children of Seth. And Edom shall be
his possession, and the possession of Seir shall be their enemies,
and Israel shall do manfully. And out of Iacob shall come he that
shall destroy the remnant of the cities. And he looked on Amalek
and began his parable and said: Amalek is the first of the
nations, but his latter end shall perish utterly. And he looked on
the Kenites, and took his parable and said: strong is thy dwelling
place and put thy nest upon a rock.
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