╬╒═ 22:1 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL SET FORWARD, AND PITCHED IN THE PLAINS OF ═OAB ON THIS SIDE ╩ORDAN BY ╩ERICHO.
╬╒═ 22:2 ┴ND ┬ALAK THE SON OF ┌IPPOR SAW ALL THAT ╔SRAEL HAD DONE TO THE ┴MORITES.
╬╒═ 22:3 ┴ND ═OAB WAS SORE AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY WERE MANY: AND ═OAB WAS DISTRESSED BECAUSE OF THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL.
╬╒═ 22:4 ┴ND ═OAB SAID UNTO THE ELDERS OF ═IDIAN, ╬OW SHALL THIS COMPANY LICK UP ALL THAT ARE ROUND ABOUT US, AS THE OX LICKETH UP THE GRASS OF THE FIELD. ┴ND ┬ALAK THE SON OF ┌IPPOR WAS KING OF THE ═OABITES AT THAT TIME.
╬╒═ 22:5 ╚E SENT MESSENGERS THEREFORE UNTO ┬ALAAM THE SON OF ┬EOR TO ╨ETHOR, WHICH IS BY THE RIVER OF THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF HIS PEOPLE, TO CALL HIM, SAYING, ┬EHOLD, THERE IS A PEOPLE COME OUT FROM ┼GYPT: BEHOLD, THEY COVER THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND THEY ABIDE OVER AGAINST ME:
╬╒═ 22:6 ├OME NOW THEREFORE, ╔ PRAY THEE, CURSE ME THIS PEOPLE; FOR THEY ARE TOO MIGHTY FOR ME: PERADVENTURE ╔ SHALL PREVAIL, THAT WE MAY SMITE THEM, AND THAT ╔ MAY DRIVE THEM OUT OF THE LAND: FOR ╔ WOT THAT HE WHOM THOU BLESSEST IS BLESSED, AND HE WHOM THOU CURSEST IS CURSED.
╬╒═ 22:7 ┴ND THE ELDERS OF ═OAB AND THE ELDERS OF ═IDIAN DEPARTED WITH THE REWARDS OF DIVINATION IN THEIR HAND; AND THEY CAME UNTO ┬ALAAM, AND SPAKE UNTO HIM THE WORDS OF ┬ALAK.
╬╒═ 22:8 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO THEM, ╠ODGE HERE THIS NIGHT, AND ╔ WILL BRING YOU WORD AGAIN, AS THE ╠╧╥─ SHALL SPEAK UNTO ME: AND THE PRINCES OF ═OAB ABODE WITH ┬ALAAM.
╬╒═ 22:9 ┴ND ╟OD CAME UNTO ┬ALAAM, AND SAID, ╫HAT MEN ARE THESE WITH THEE?
╬╒═ 22:10 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO ╟OD, ┬ALAK THE SON OF ┌IPPOR, KING OF ═OAB, HATH SENT UNTO ME, SAYING,
╬╒═ 22:11 ┬EHOLD, THERE IS A PEOPLE COME OUT OF ┼GYPT, WHICH COVERETH THE FACE OF THE EARTH: COME NOW, CURSE ME THEM; PERADVENTURE ╔ SHALL BE ABLE TO OVERCOME THEM, AND DRIVE THEM OUT.
╬╒═ 22:12 ┴ND ╟OD SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ╘HOU SHALT NOT GO WITH THEM; THOU SHALT NOT CURSE THE PEOPLE: FOR THEY ARE BLESSED.
╬╒═ 22:13 ┴ND ┬ALAAM ROSE UP IN THE MORNING, AND SAID UNTO THE PRINCES OF ┬ALAK, ╟ET YOU INTO YOUR LAND: FOR THE ╠╧╥─ REFUSETH TO GIVE ME LEAVE TO GO WITH YOU.
╬╒═ 22:14 ┴ND THE PRINCES OF ═OAB ROSE UP, AND THEY WENT UNTO ┬ALAK, AND SAID, ┬ALAAM REFUSETH TO COME WITH US.
╬╒═ 22:15 ┴ND ┬ALAK SENT YET AGAIN PRINCES, MORE, AND MORE HONOURABLE THAN THEY.
╬╒═ 22:16 ┴ND THEY CAME TO ┬ALAAM, AND SAID TO HIM, ╘HUS SAITH ┬ALAK THE SON OF ┌IPPOR, ╠ET NOTHING, ╔ PRAY THEE, HINDER THEE FROM COMING UNTO ME:
╬╒═ 22:17 ╞OR ╔ WILL PROMOTE THEE UNTO VERY GREAT HONOUR, AND ╔ WILL DO WHATSOEVER THOU SAYEST UNTO ME: COME THEREFORE, ╔ PRAY THEE, CURSE ME THIS PEOPLE.
╬╒═ 22:18 ┴ND ┬ALAAM ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE SERVANTS OF ┬ALAK, ╔F ┬ALAK WOULD GIVE ME HIS HOUSE FULL OF SILVER AND GOLD, ╔ CANNOT GO BEYOND THE WORD OF THE ╠╧╥─ MY ╟OD, TO DO LESS OR MORE.
╬╒═ 22:19 ╬OW THEREFORE, ╔ PRAY YOU, TARRY YE ALSO HERE THIS NIGHT, THAT ╔ MAY KNOW WHAT THE ╠╧╥─ WILL SAY UNTO ME MORE.
╬╒═ 22:20 ┴ND ╟OD CAME UNTO ┬ALAAM AT NIGHT, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╔F THE MEN COME TO CALL THEE, RISE UP, AND GO WITH THEM; BUT YET THE WORD WHICH ╔ SHALL SAY UNTO THEE, THAT SHALT THOU DO.
╬╒═ 22:21 ┴ND ┬ALAAM ROSE UP IN THE MORNING, AND SADDLED HIS ASS, AND WENT WITH THE PRINCES OF ═OAB.
╬╒═ 22:22 ┴ND ╟OD'S ANGER WAS KINDLED BECAUSE HE WENT: AND THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ STOOD IN THE WAY FOR AN ADVERSARY AGAINST HIM. ╬OW HE WAS RIDING UPON HIS ASS, AND HIS TWO SERVANTS WERE WITH HIM.
╬╒═ 22:23 ┴ND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ STANDING IN THE WAY, AND HIS SWORD DRAWN IN HIS HAND: AND THE ASS TURNED ASIDE OUT OF THE WAY, AND WENT INTO THE FIELD: AND ┬ALAAM SMOTE THE ASS, TO TURN HER INTO THE WAY.
╬╒═ 22:24 ┬UT THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ STOOD IN A PATH OF THE VINEYARDS, A WALL BEING ON THIS SIDE, AND A WALL ON THAT SIDE.
╬╒═ 22:25 ┴ND WHEN THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─, SHE THRUST HERSELF UNTO THE WALL, AND CRUSHED ┬ALAAM'S FOOT AGAINST THE WALL: AND HE SMOTE HER AGAIN.
╬╒═ 22:26 ┴ND THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ WENT FURTHER, AND STOOD IN A NARROW PLACE, WHERE WAS NO WAY TO TURN EITHER TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT.
╬╒═ 22:27 ┴ND WHEN THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─, SHE FELL DOWN UNDER ┬ALAAM: AND ┬ALAAM'S ANGER WAS KINDLED, AND HE SMOTE THE ASS WITH A STAFF.
╬╒═ 22:28 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ OPENED THE MOUTH OF THE ASS, AND SHE SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ╫HAT HAVE ╔ DONE UNTO THEE, THAT THOU HAST SMITTEN ME THESE THREE TIMES?
╬╒═ 22:29 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO THE ASS, ┬ECAUSE THOU HAST MOCKED ME: ╔ WOULD THERE WERE A SWORD IN MINE HAND, FOR NOW WOULD ╔ KILL THEE.
╬╒═ 22:30 ┴ND THE ASS SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ┴M NOT ╔ THINE ASS, UPON WHICH THOU HAST RIDDEN EVER SINCE ╔ WAS THINE UNTO THIS DAY? WAS ╔ EVER WONT TO DO SO UNTO THEE? ┴ND HE SAID, ╬AY.
╬╒═ 22:31 ╘HEN THE ╠╧╥─ OPENED THE EYES OF ┬ALAAM, AND HE SAW THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ STANDING IN THE WAY, AND HIS SWORD DRAWN IN HIS HAND: AND HE BOWED DOWN HIS HEAD, AND FELL FLAT ON HIS FACE.
╬╒═ 22:32 ┴ND THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HEREFORE HAST THOU SMITTEN THINE ASS THESE THREE TIMES? BEHOLD, ╔ WENT OUT TO W THSTAND THEE, BECAUSE THY WAY IS PERVERSE BEFORE ME:
╬╒═ 22:33 ┴ND THE ASS SAW ME, AND TURNED FROM ME THESE THREE TIMES: UNLESS SHE HAD TURNED FROM ME, SURELY NOW ALSO ╔ HAD SLAIN THEE, AND SAVED HER ALIVE.
╬╒═ 22:34 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─, ╔ HAVE SINNED; FOR ╔ KNEW NOT THAT THOU STOODEST IN THE WAY AGAINST ME: NOW THEREFORE, IF IT DISPLEASE THEE, ╔ WILL GET ME BACK AGAIN.
╬╒═ 22:35 ┴ND THE ANGEL OF THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ╟O WITH THE MEN: BUT ONLY THE WORD THAT ╔ SHALL SPEAK UNTO THEE, THAT THOU SHALT SPEAK. ╙O ┬ALAAM WENT WITH THE PRINCES OF ┬ALAK.
╬╒═ 22:36 ┴ND WHEN ┬ALAK HEARD THAT ┬ALAAM WAS COME, HE WENT OUT TO MEET HIM UNTO A CITY OF ═OAB, WHICH IS IN THE BORDER OF ┴RNON, WHICH IS IN THE UTMOST COAST.
╬╒═ 22:37 ┴ND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ─ID ╔ NOT EARNESTLY SEND UNTO THEE TO CALL THEE? WHEREFORE CAMEST THOU NOT UNTO ME? AM ╔ NOT ABLE INDEED TO PROMOTE THEE TO HONOUR?
╬╒═ 22:38 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ╠O, ╔ AM COME UNTO THEE: HAVE ╔ NOW ANY POWER AT ALL TO SAY ANY THING? THE WORD THAT ╟OD PUTTETH IN MY MOUTH, THAT SHALL ╔ SPEAK.
╬╒═ 22:39 ┴ND ┬ALAAM WENT WITH ┬ALAK, AND THEY CAME UNTO ╦IRJATHHUZOTH.
╬╒═ 22:40 ┴ND ┬ALAK OFFERED OXEN AND SHEEP, AND SENT TO ┬ALAAM, AND TO THE PRINCES THAT WERE WITH HIM.
╬╒═ 22:41 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, THAT ┬ALAK TOOK ┬ALAAM, AND BROUGHT HIM UP INTO THE HIGH PLACES OF ┬AAL, THAT THENCE HE MIGHT SEE THE UTMOST PART OF THE PEOPLE.
