And he took up his parable, and said, rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken as a witness, you son of Zippor.

And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open says,

And he took up his parable and said, The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, the man whose eyes are truly open,

And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live, when God shall do these things?

And Job further continued and said in his discourse,

And Job continued and said in his discourse,

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter dark sayings [which have been] from the beginning.

Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:

And I said, Not so, O Lord God! They say to me, Is not this that is spoken a parable?

In that day shall a parable be taken up against you, and a plaintive lamentation shall be uttered, saying, We are thoroughly miserable: the portion of my people has been measured out with a line, and there was none to hinder him so as to turn him back; your fields have been divided.

Shall not all these take up a parable against him? And a proverb to tell against him? And they shall say, Woe to him that multiplies to himself the possessions which are not his! How long? And who heavily loads his yoke.

Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and mixed in with three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened."

so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: "I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world."

And they sought to lay hold of Him, but they feared the crowd, for they knew that He has spoken the parable against them. And leaving Him, they went away.

And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people have come out of Egypt, and behold, they have covered the face of the earth, and have encamped close to me.

The sons of Shem [were] Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, and Cainan.

Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself a wife of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

and [that] Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.

because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when you went out of Egypt; and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse you.

And now come [here, and] curse this people for me, for they are stronger than us. Perhaps we may be able to smite some of them, and cast them out of the land; for I know that whomsoever you bless, they are blessed, and whomsoever you curse, they are cursed.

Behold, a people has come forth out of Egypt, and has covered the face of the land, and they have encamped near to me; and now come, curse them for me, if indeed I shall be able to smite them, and cast them out of the land.

For I will greatly honor you, and will do for you whatsoever you shall say; come then, curse this people for me.

As birds and sparrows fly, so a curse shall not come upon anyone without a cause.

And the Philistine said, Behold, I have defied the armies of Israel this very day: give me a man, and we will both of us fight in single combat.

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Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them! Shall I not go and kill him, and remove this day [this] reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

And David said to the Philistine, You come to me with sword, and with spear, and with shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord God of hosts, of the army of Israel, which you have defied this day.

And he defied Israel, and Jonathan son of Shimei brother of David, killed him.

And after him Eleazer the son of his uncle, son of Dodai who was among the three mighty men with David; and when he defied the Philistines they were gathered there to war, and the men of Israel went up.