Numbers 22:41; Numbers 23:1-12 and John 18:25-27 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 22:41 AND NUMBER 23:1-12
BALAAM FIRST PROPHECY (BALAAM BLESSES ISRAEL)
41  The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see some of the people of Israel spread out below him.
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1    Then Balaam said to King Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven young bulls and seven rams for me to sacrifice.” 

2    Balak followed his instructions, and the two of them sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar.

3    Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offerings, and I will go to see if the Lord will respond to me. Then I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.” So Balaam went alone to the top of a bare hill, 

4    and God met him there. Balaam said to him, “I have prepared seven altars and have sacrificed a young bull and a ram on each altar.”

5    The Lord gave Balaam a message for King Balak. Then he said, “Go back to Balak and give him my message.”

6    So Balaam returned and found the king standing beside his burnt offerings with all the officials of Moab.

7    This was the message Balaam delivered:  “Balak summoned me to come from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills.  ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me!  Come and announce Israel’s doom.’

8    But how can I curse those whom God has not cursed?  How can I condemn those whom the Lord has not condemned?

9    I see them from the cliff tops; I watch them from the hills.  I see a people who live by themselves, set apart from other nations.

10  Who can count Jacob’s descendants, as numerous as dust?  Who can count even a fourth of Israel’s people?  Let me die like the righteous; let my life end like theirs.”

11  Then King Balak demanded of Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies. Instead, you have blessed them!”

12  But Balaam replied, “I will speak only the message that the Lord puts in my mouth.”

JOHN 18:25-27

PETER DENIES JESUS AGAIN

25  Meanwhile, as Simon Peter was standing by the fire warming himself, they asked him again, “You’re not one of his disciples, are you?”  He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”

26  But one of the household slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you out there in the olive grove with Jesus?” 

27  Again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.