◄ Numbers 23:18 ►
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Good News Translation
and Balaam uttered this prophecy: "Come, Balak son of Zippor, And listen to what I have to say.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying: “Rise, Balak, and hear; listen to me, O son of Zippor:

Contemporary English Version
Balaam answered: "Pay close attention to my words--

New American Bible
Balaam recited his poem: Rise, Balak, and listen; give ear to my testimony, son of Zippor!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

rise up

Judges 3:20 Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne.

Context
Balaam's Second Oracle
…17Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken? 18But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?…
Cross References
Numbers 23:17
Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

Numbers 23:17
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