Numbers 24:11

promote thee unto great honour. See note on Numbers 22:17; Numbers 22:37.

lo. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

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¹¹ Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.

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