Thou shalt: Numbers 22:20; Job 33:15-17; Matthew 27:19
thou shalt not curse: Numbers 22:19, Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:13-15, Numbers 23:19, Numbers 23:23; Micah 6:5
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Numbers 22:12
Numbers 22:12
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