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Numbers Chapter 23

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Numbers 23

1And Balaam seide to Balaach, Bilde thou here to me seuene auteris, and make redi so many caluys, and rammes of the same noumbre.
Numbers 23:29, Numbers 23:29, Proverbs 15:8, Jude 1:11, 1 Samuel 15:22
2And whanne he hadde do bi the word of Balaam, thei puttiden a calf and a ram to gidere on the auter.
Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30, Numbers 23:14, Numbers 23:30
3And Balaam seide to Balaach, Stond thou a litil while bisidis thi brent sacrifice, while Y go, if in hap the Lord meete me; and Y schal `speke to thee what euer thing he schal comaunde.
Numbers 23:15, Numbers 23:15, Genesis 22:2, Numbers 24:1, Genesis 22:7
4And whanne he hadde go swiftli, God cam to hym; and Balaam spak to hym, and seide, Y reiside seuene auteris, and Y puttide a calf and a ram aboue.
Numbers 23:16, Numbers 23:16, Luke 18:12, Ephesians 2:9, Luke 18:12
5Forsothe the Lord `puttide a word in his mouth, and seide, Turne ayen to Balaach, and thou schalt speke these thingis.
Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Deuteronomy 18:18, Jeremiah 1:9, Isaiah 59:21
6He turnede ayen, and fond Balach stondynge bisidis his brent sacrifice, and alle the princes of Moabitis.
7And whanne his parable `was takun, he seide, Balaach, the kyng of Moabitis, brouyte me fro Aran, fro the `hillis of the eest; and he seide, Come thou and curse Jacob; haaste thou, and greetli curse thou Israel.
Numbers 23:18, Numbers 22:5, Numbers 22:6, Numbers 24:3, Deuteronomy 23:4
8How schal Y curse whom God cursid not? bi what resoun schal Y `haue abhomynable whom God `hath not abhomynable?
Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:23, Numbers 23:20, Isaiah 44:25, Numbers 23:20
9Fro the hiyeste flyntis Y schal se hym, and fro litle hillis Y schal biholde hym; the puple schal dwelle aloone, and it schal not be arettid among hethene men.
Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 33:28, Deuteronomy 32:8, Exodus 33:16, Deuteronomy 32:8
10Who may noumbre the dust, that is, kynrede, of Jacob, and knowe the noumbre of the generacioun of Israel? My lijf die in the deeth of iust men, and my laste thingis be maad lijk hem!
Psalms 37:37, Psalms 37:37, Genesis 13:16, Genesis 13:16, Psalms 116:15
11And Balaach seide to Balaam, What is this that thou doist? Y clepide thee, that thou schuldist curse myn enemyes, and ayenward thou blessist hem.
Nehemiah 13:2, Nehemiah 13:2, Numbers 24:10, Numbers 24:10, Psalms 109:17
12To whom Balaam answeride, Whether Y may speke othir thing no but that that the Lord comaundith?
Numbers 22:38, Numbers 22:38, Numbers 23:26, Numbers 23:20, Numbers 24:13
13Therfor Balaach seide to Balaam, Come with me in to anothir place, fro whennus thou se a part of Israel, and mayst not se al; fro thennus curse thou hym.
Psalms 109:17, James 3:9, James 3:10, Psalms 109:17, James 3:9
14And whanne he hadde led Balaam in to an hiy place, on the cop of the hil of Phasga, he bildide seuene auteris to Balaam, and whanne calues and rammes weren put aboue,
Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Isaiah 46:6
15he seide to Balaach, Stonde here bisidis thi brent sacrifice, while Y go.
Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:3, Numbers 22:8, Numbers 22:8
16And whanne the Lord hadde `come to him, and hadde put `a word in his mouth, he seide, Turne ayen to Balach, and thou schalt seie these thingis to hym.
Numbers 23:5, Numbers 23:5, Numbers 22:35, Numbers 24:1, Numbers 22:35
17He turnyde ayen, and foond Balach stondynge bisidis his brent sacrifice, and the princis of Moabitis with hym. To whom Balach seide, What spak the Lord?
Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17, 1 Samuel 3:17, Numbers 23:26, Jeremiah 37:17
18And whanne his parable `was takun, he seide, Stonde, Balach, and herkene; here, thou sone of Sephor. God is not `as a man,
Judges 3:20, Judges 3:20
19that he lye, nethir he is as the sone of a man, that he be chaungid; therfor he seide, and schal he not do? he spak, and schal he not fulfille?
1 Samuel 15:29, 1 Samuel 15:29, James 1:17, James 1:17, Malachi 3:6
20Y am brouyt to blesse, Y may not forbede blessyng.
John 10:27, John 10:29, John 10:27, John 10:29, Numbers 22:12
21Noon idol is in Jacob, nethir symylacre is seyn in Israel; his Lord God is with hym, and the sown of victorie of kyng is in hym.
Psalms 23:4, Psalms 23:4, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 1:23, Jeremiah 50:20
22The Lord God ledde hym out of Egipt, whos strengthe is lijk an vnicorn;
Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Numbers 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9
23fals tellyng bi chiteryng of bryddis, `ethir idolatrie, is not in Jacob, nethir fals dyuynyng is in Israel. In his tymes it schal be seide to Jacob and Israel, What the Lord hath wrought!
Luke 10:18, Luke 10:19, Luke 10:18, Luke 10:19, Joshua 13:22
24Lo! the puple schal rise to gidere as a lionesse, and schal be reisid as a lioun; the lioun schal not reste, til he deuoure prey, and drynke the blood of hem that ben slayn.
Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:9, Genesis 49:27, Genesis 49:27, Zechariah 12:6
25And Balach seide to Balaam, Nether curse thou, nether blesse thou hym.
Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:3, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:3
26And he seide, Whether Y seide not to thee, that what euer thing that God comaundide to me, Y wolde do this?
Acts 5:29, Acts 5:29, Numbers 22:18, Numbers 22:18, 2 Chronicles 18:13
27And Balach seide to hym, Come, and Y schal lede thee to an other place, if in hap it plesith God that fro thennus thou curse hym.
Romans 11:29, Romans 11:29, Proverbs 21:30, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11
28And whanne Balaach hadde led hym out on the `cop of the hil of Phegor, that biholdith the wildirnesse,
Numbers 21:20, Numbers 21:20, Psalms 106:28, Psalms 106:28
29Balaam seide to hym, Bilde here seuene auteris to me, and make redi so many caluys, and rammes of the same noumbre.
Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2, Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2
30Balaach dide as Balaam seide, and he puttide caluys and rammes, bi alle auteris.

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