Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when you came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Water: the necessaries of life. This inhumanity is highly resented. Son. Hebrew, "of Beor, of Pethor, a city of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. "(Haydock) (Numbers xxii. 5.)

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