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Balaam’s Final Prophecies

20 Then Balaam[a] looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle:[b]

“Amalek was the first[c] of the nations,
but his end will be that he will perish.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:20 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Balaam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Numbers 24:20 tn Heb “and he lifted up his oracle and said.” So also in vv. 21, 23.
  3. Numbers 24:20 sn This probably means that it held first place, or it thought that it was “the first of the nations.” It was not the first, either in order or greatness.