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    "chapter": 23
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    "n": 23,
    "bookSlug": "numbers",
    "bookCode": "NUM",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "NUM-23:1",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.1",
        "text": "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "NUM-23:2",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.2",
        "text": "And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "NUM-23:3",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.3",
        "text": "And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "NUM-23:4",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.4",
        "text": "And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "NUM-23:5",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.5",
        "text": "And Jehovah put a word in Balaam`s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "NUM-23:6",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.6",
        "text": "And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "NUM-23:7",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.7",
        "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "NUM-23:8",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.8",
        "text": "How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "NUM-23:9",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.9",
        "text": "For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "NUM-23:10",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.10",
        "text": "Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "NUM-23:11",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.11",
        "text": "And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "NUM-23:12",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.12",
        "text": "And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "NUM-23:13",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.13",
        "text": "And Balak said unto him, Come, I 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."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "NUM-23:14",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.14",
        "text": "And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "NUM-23:15",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.15",
        "text": "And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet [Jehovah] yonder."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "NUM-23:16",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.16",
        "text": "And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "NUM-23:17",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.17",
        "text": "And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "NUM-23:18",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.18",
        "text": "And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "NUM-23:19",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.19",
        "text": "God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "NUM-23:20",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.20",
        "text": "Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "NUM-23:21",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.21",
        "text": "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: Jehovah his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "NUM-23:22",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.22",
        "text": "God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "NUM-23:23",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.23",
        "text": "Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shalt it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "NUM-23:24",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.24",
        "text": "Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "NUM-23:25",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.25",
        "text": "And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "NUM-23:26",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.26",
        "text": "But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "NUM-23:27",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.27",
        "text": "And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "NUM-23:28",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.28",
        "text": "And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "NUM-23:29",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.29",
        "text": "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "NUM-23:30",
        "verseRef": "Num.23.30",
        "text": "And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar."
      }
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