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Balaam returned to Balak and found him standing by his burnt offering, along with all the officials of Moab. Balaam took up his oracle. He said:

From Aram, Balak has brought me.
Balak, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains, said,
“Come, curse Jacob for me.
Come, denounce Israel.”
How can I curse someone God has not cursed?
How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?
Yes, from the rocky peaks I see him.
From the hills I look at him.
Look! A people that dwells apart,
that does not consider itself to be one of the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob,
or number even a fourth of Israel?
May I die the death of the righteous!
May my final end be like his!

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