You will eat, not just one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days,

And you will bear no sin concerning it when you offer up the best of it. And you must not profane the holy things of the Israelites, or else you will die.’”

Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?

or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,

How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

But when you assemble the community, you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm.

Indeed, I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

But the descendants of Korah did not die.

“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

The Lord spoke to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion of property among them – I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

He must purify himself with water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third day and the seventh day, then he will not be clean.

“Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”

But God said to Balaam, “You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

He has not looked on iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; his acclamation as king is among them.