NEW TESTAMENT

2 Peter 2:15

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Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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Verse 15. In this they are like Balaam, of Bosor, (a town of the Madianites) who coveting the reward promised him, (Judges 11) was willing, if God had permitted him, to have cursed the people of Israel: but God put a check to his madness, by making the ass which he rode upon speak with a human voice. Witham.

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