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

  2  Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired ^aBalaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

  15  Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of ^dBalaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;