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Numbers 22:17

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For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

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  1. Numbers 22:15

    And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

  2. Numbers 22:16

    And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

  3. Numbers 22:18

    And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

  4. Numbers 22:19

    Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more.

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