and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.' The woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.'

"Say to the children of Israel, 'If any man of you or of your generations is unclean by reason of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.

"Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and you will eat.

Tell them, 'As I live, says the LORD, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"

The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."

He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of Shaddai, falling down, and having his eyes open:

'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what the LORD says'?

He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of Shaddai, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

Therefore say, 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:

But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he says nothing to her on the day that he heard them.

but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says."