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21 Then Balaam saw the Kenites and said this:

“You believe that your country is safe,
    like a bird’s nest[a] high on a mountain.
22 But you Kenites will be destroyed,
    just as the Lord destroyed Cain.
    Assyria will make you prisoners.”

23 Then Balaam said this:

“No one can live when God does this.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:21 nest, Kenite, Cain A play on words. The names “Cain” and “Kenite” are like the Hebrew word meaning “nest.”

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