2 for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.

4 ^lbecause they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they ^mhired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ⁿMesopotamia, to curse you.