“And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.”
And Balak said to him, 'Come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there' — Balak proposes a change of location. Perhaps from a different vantage point, with a reduced view, Balaam will pronounce a different oracle. The strategy is magical-superstitious: changing location might change outcome. Balak hopes that seeing fewer Israelites will permit Balaam to curse; the overwhelming multitude perhaps constrained his prophecy.
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