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He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
