Numbers 23:6-8

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⁶So he returned to Balak,^[a] who was standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab. ⁷Then Balaam^[b] uttered his oracle, saying:

“Balak has brought me from Aram,
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, curse Jacob for me;
    Come, denounce Israel!’
⁸How can I curse whom God has not cursed?
    How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?

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Numbers 23:6 Heb him
Numbers 23:7 Heb he

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