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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 23: 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Numbers 23: 10 Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!
Numbers 23: 11 And Balak said unto Balaam: 'What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.'
Numbers 23: 12 And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'
Numbers 23: 13 And Balak said unto him: 'Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.'
Numbers 23: 14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23: 15 And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'
Numbers 23: 16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.'
Numbers 23: 17 And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'
Numbers 23: 18 And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor:
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