3 Then Balaam said to Balak, a“Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come bto meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.
4 aAnd God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5 Then the Lord aput a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he atook up his oracle and said:
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
b‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, cdenounce Israel!’
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
b‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, cdenounce Israel!’
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Numbers
Numbers
NUMBERS. This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Numbers 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Numbers 16:5) is made in the New Testament (II Timothy 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous.