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Numbers 23:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” "
Numbers 23:27
Verse in Context
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25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”
27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
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Numbers 23:1
"Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”"
Numbers 23:2
"Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram."
Numbers 23:3
"Balaam 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."
Numbers 23:4
"God 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.”"
Numbers 23:5
"The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”"
Numbers 23:6
"He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab."
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