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God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
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Verse 4. Speed. Hebrew shephi, may signify also “on the straight road,” (Sept.) “into the plain,” (Louis de Dieu) “all alone,” (Onkelos) or most probably “upon an eminence.” Kimchi. Calmet.—God, in the visible form of an angel. Menochius.—To him. Balaam might suppose that he was addressing his idol. But Moses informs us, that the true God or his angel was present, and forced Balaam to deliver an unwelcome message to the king. Bible.
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