╬╒═ 23:1 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ┬UILD ME HERE SEVEN ALTARS, AND PREPARE ME HERE SEVEN OXEN AND SEVEN RAMS.
╬╒═ 23:2 ┴ND ┬ALAK DID AS ┬ALAAM HAD SPOKEN; AND ┬ALAK AND ┬ALAAM OFFERED ON EVERY ALTAR A BULLOCK AND A RAM.
╬╒═ 23:3 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ╙TAND BY THY BURNT OFFERING, AND ╔ WILL GO: PERADVENTURE THE ╠╧╥─ WILL COME TO MEET ME: AND WHATSOEVER HE SHEWETH ME ╔ WILL TELL THEE. ┴ND HE WENT TO AN HIGH PLACE.
╬╒═ 23:4 ┴ND ╟OD MET ┬ALAAM: AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╔ HAVE PREPARED SEVEN ALTARS, AND ╔ HAVE OFFERED UPON EVERY ALTAR A BULLOCK AND A RAM.
╬╒═ 23:5 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ PUT A WORD IN ┬ALAAM'S MOUTH, AND SAID, ╥ETURN UNTO ┬ALAK, AND THUS THOU SHALT SPEAK.
╬╒═ 23:6 ┴ND HE RETURNED UNTO HIM, AND, LO, HE STOOD BY HIS BURNT SACRIFICE, HE, AND ALL THE PRINCES OF ═OAB.
╬╒═ 23:7 ┴ND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ┬ALAK THE KING OF ═OAB HATH BROUGHT ME FROM ┴RAM, OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS OF THE EAST, SAYING, ├OME, CURSE ME ╩ACOB, AND COME, DEFY ╔SRAEL.
╬╒═ 23:8 ╚OW SHALL ╔ CURSE, WHOM ╟OD HATH NOT CURSED? OR HOW SHALL ╔ DEFY, WHOM THE ╠╧╥─ HATH NOT DEFIED?
╬╒═ 23:9 ╞OR FROM THE TOP OF THE ROCKS ╔ SEE HIM, AND FROM THE HILLS ╔ BEHOLD HIM: LO, THE PEOPLE SHALL DWELL ALONE, AND SHALL NOT BE RECKONED AMONG THE NATIONS.
╬╒═ 23:10 ╫HO CAN COUNT THE DUST OF ╩ACOB, AND THE NUMBER OF THE FOURTH PART OF ╔SRAEL? ╠ET ME DIE THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND LET MY LAST END BE LIKE HIS!
╬╒═ 23:11 ┴ND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ╫HAT HAST THOU DONE UNTO ME? ╔ TOOK THEE TO CURSE MINE ENEMIES, AND, BEHOLD, THOU HAST BLESSED THEM ALTOGETHER.
╬╒═ 23:12 ┴ND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, ═UST ╔ NOT TAKE HEED TO SPEAK THAT WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ HATH PUT IN MY MOUTH?
╬╒═ 23:13 ┴ND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO HIM, ├OME, ╔ PRAY THEE, WITH ME UNTO ANOTHER PLACE, FROM WHENCE THOU MAYEST SEE THEM: THOU SHALT SEE BUT THE UTMOST PART OF THEM, AND SHALT NOT SEE THEM ALL: AND CURSE ME THEM FROM THENCE.
╬╒═ 23:14 ┴ND HE BROUGHT HIM INTO THE FIELD OF ┌OPHIM, TO THE TOP OF ╨ISGAH, AND BUILT SEVEN ALTARS, AND OFFERED A BULLOCK AND A RAM ON EVERY ALTAR.
╬╒═ 23:15 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ╙TAND HERE BY THY BURNT OFFERING, WHILE ╔ MEET THE ╠╧╥─ YONDER.
╬╒═ 23:16 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ MET ┬ALAAM, AND PUT A WORD IN HIS MOUTH, AND SAID, ╟O AGAIN UNTO ┬ALAK, AND SAY THUS.
╬╒═ 23:17 ┴ND WHEN HE CAME TO HIM, BEHOLD, HE STOOD BY HIS BURNT OFFERING, AND THE PRINCES OF ═OAB WITH HIM. ┴ND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HAT HATH THE ╠╧╥─ SPOKEN?
╬╒═ 23:18 ┴ND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ╥ISE UP, ┬ALAK, AND HEAR; HEARKEN UNTO ME, THOU SON OF ┌IPPOR:
╬╒═ 23:19 ╟OD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE; NEITHER THE SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT: HATH HE SAID, AND SHALL HE NOT DO IT? OR HATH HE SPOKEN, AND SHALL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD?
╬╒═ 23:20 ┬EHOLD, ╔ HAVE RECEIVED COMMANDMENT TO BLESS: AND HE HATH BLESSED; AND ╔ CANNOT REVERSE IT.
╬╒═ 23:21 ╚E HATH NOT BEHELD INIQUITY IN ╩ACOB, NEITHER HATH HE SEEN PERVERSENESS IN ╔SRAEL: THE ╠╧╥─ HIS ╟OD IS WITH HIM, AND THE SHOUT OF A KING IS AMONG THEM.
╬╒═ 23:22 ╟OD BROUGHT THEM OUT OF ┼GYPT; HE HATH AS IT WERE THE STRENGTH OF AN UNICORN.
╬╒═ 23:23 ╙URELY THERE IS NO ENCHANTMENT AGAINST ╩ACOB, NEITHER IS THERE ANY DIVINATION AGAINST ╔SRAEL: ACCORDING TO THIS TIME IT SHALL BE SAID OF ╩ACOB AND OF ╔SRAEL, ╫HAT HATH ╟OD WROUGHT!
╬╒═ 23:24 ┬EHOLD, THE PEOPLE SHALL RISE UP AS A GREAT LION, AND LIFT UP HIMSELF AS A YOUNG LION: HE SHALL NOT LIE DOWN UNTIL HE EAT OF THE PREY, AND DRINK THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN.
╬╒═ 23:25 ┴ND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ╬EITHER CURSE THEM AT ALL, NOR BLESS THEM AT ALL.
╬╒═ 23:26 ┬UT ┬ALAAM ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ╘OLD NOT ╔ THEE, SAYING, ┴LL THAT THE ╠╧╥─ SPEAKETH, THAT ╔ MUST DO?
╬╒═ 23:27 ┴ND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ├OME, ╔ PRAY THEE, ╔ WILL BRING THEE UNTO ANOTHER PLACE; PERADVENTURE IT WILL PLEASE ╟OD THAT THOU MAYEST CURSE ME THEM FROM THENCE.
╬╒═ 23:28 ┴ND ┬ALAK BROUGHT ┬ALAAM UNTO THE TOP OF ╨EOR, THAT LOOKETH TOWARD ╩ESHIMON.
╬╒═ 23:29 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ┬UILD ME HERE SEVEN ALTARS, AND PREPARE ME HERE SEVEN BULLOCKS AND SEVEN RAMS.
╬╒═ 23:30 ┴ND ┬ALAK DID AS ┬ALAAM HAD SAID, AND OFFERED A BULLOCK AND A RAM ON EVERY ALTAR.
