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Seven altars, and Balaam’s first parable

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Numbers 23:1–12: at Balaam’s word Balak builds seven altars, and on each altar the two of them offer a bull and a ram. Balaam goes to a bare height, God meets him, and the LORD puts a word in his mouth. He returns and takes up his parable: Balak brought him from Aram to curse Jacob, but how shall he curse whom God has not cursed? This is a people that dwells alone and shall not be listed among the nations; who can count the dust of Jacob? Let him die the death of the righteous. Balak says he brought him to curse his enemies and he has blessed them altogether; Balaam answers that he must speak what the LORD puts in his mouth.

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NUM 23:1–12, engwebp
¹Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
²Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
³Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
⁴God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
⁵The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
⁶He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
⁷He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
⁸How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
⁹For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.
¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
¹¹Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
¹²He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?”
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Balaam — Took part in — Seven altars, and Balaam’s first parable

Evidence: Numbers 23:1–12
Balak — Took part in — Seven altars, and Balaam’s first parable

Evidence: Numbers 23:1–12

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Entry: Seven altars, and Balaam’s first parable (event-num-23-first-parable)
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Current wording: Numbers 23:1–12: at Balaam’s word Balak builds seven altars, and on each altar the two of them offer a bull and a ram. Balaam goes to a bare height, God meets him, and the LORD puts a word in his mouth. He returns and takes up his parable: Balak brought him from Aram to curse Jacob, but how shall he curse whom God has not cursed? This is a people that dwells alone and shall not be listed among the nations; who can count the dust of Jacob? Let him die the death of the righteous. Balak says he brought him to curse his enemies and he has blessed them altogether; Balaam answers that he must speak what the LORD puts in his mouth.
Cited evidence: NUM 23:1–12, engwebp
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