Genesis 28:13-15

New International Version

¹³There above it^[a] stood the Lord,^(A) and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.^(B) I will give you and your descendants the land^(C) on which you are lying.^(D) ¹⁴Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you^(E) will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south.^(F) All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.^[b]^(G) ¹⁵I am with you^(H) and will watch over you^(I) wherever you go,^(J) and I will bring you back to this land.^(K) I will not leave you^(L) until I have done what I have promised you.^(M)”^(N)

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Footnotes

Genesis 28:13 Or There beside him
Genesis 28:14 Or will use your name and the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

Numbers 24:17

New International Version

¹⁷“I see him, but not now;
    I behold him, but not near.^(A)
A star will come out of Jacob;^(B)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.^(C)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,^(D)
    the skulls^[a]^(E) of^[b] all the people of Sheth.^[c]

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Footnotes

Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters

Numbers 24:17 in all English translations

Numbers 24:19

New International Version

¹⁹A ruler will come out of Jacob^(A)
and destroy the survivors of the city.”

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Numbers 24:19 in all English translations

Numbers 21:8-9

New International Version

⁸The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;^(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” ⁹So Moses made a bronze snake^(B) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.^(C)

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