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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."
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And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you." So he went to a desolate height.
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And 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.
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Then the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
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So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
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And he took up his oracle and said: "Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. 'Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!'