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Numbers 24:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.” "
Numbers 24:14
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12 Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
13 ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the LORD’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what the LORD says’?
14 Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
15 He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
16 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
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Numbers 24:1
"When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness."
Numbers 24:2
"Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him."
Numbers 24:3
"He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;"
Numbers 24:4
"he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:"
Numbers 24:5
"How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your dwellings, Israel!"
Numbers 24:6
"As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the LORD has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters."
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