A13203:1487
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
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¶ The .xxij. Chapter.
And Balac the son of Ziphor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites / and the Moabites were sore a frayed of the people / because they were many / and abhorred the children of Israel: And Moab said unto the elders of Midian / now this company hath licked up all that are round about us / as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balac the son of Ziphor was king of the Moabites at that time.
ANd Balac the sonne of Ziphor sawe all that Israel had done to the Amorites / and the Moabites were sore a frayed of the people / because they were many / and abhorred the childern of Israel: And Moab sayed vnto the elders of Madian / now this companye hath lickte vpp all that are rounde aboute vs / as an oxe lycketh vp the grasse of the felde. And Balac the sonne of Ziphor was kinge of the Moabites at that tyme.
And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor / the interpreter which dwelt upon the river of the land of the children ⟨image 289⟩of his folk / to call him saying: behold / there is a people come out of Egypt which covereth the face of the earth and lye even hard by me. Come now a fellowship and curse me this people. For they are to mighty for me / so peradventure I might be able to smite them and to drive them out of the land. For I wot that whom thou blessest shall be blessed / and whom thou cursest shall be cursed.