| 23 | Numbers | ||
| 1 | And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams." | ||
| 2 | Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram. | ||
| 3 | And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height. | ||
| 4 | And God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered upon each altar a bull and a ram." | ||
| 5 | And Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak." | ||
| 6 | And he returned to him, and lo, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering. | ||
| 7 | And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: 'Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel! | ||
| 8 | How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced? | ||
| 9 | For from the top of the mountains I see him, from the hills I behold him; lo, a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning itself among the nations! | ||
| 10 | Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!" | ||
| 11 | And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them." | ||
| 12 | And he answered, "Must I not take heed to speak what Yahweh puts in my mouth?" | ||
| 13 | 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." | Balaam's second prophecy. Nu.23.13-26 | |
| 14 | And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. | ||
| 15 | Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet Yahweh yonder." | ||
| 16 | And Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak." | ||
| 17 | And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?" | ||
| 18 | And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, hearken to me, O son of Zippor: | ||
| 19 | God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it? | ||
| 20 | Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it. | ||
| 21 | He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. Yahweh their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them. | ||
| 22 | God brings them out of Egypt; they have as it were the horns of the wild ox. | ||
| 23 | For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, 'What has God wrought! | ||
| 24 | Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down till it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain." | ||
| 25 | And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all." | ||
| 26 | But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that Yahweh says, that I must do?'" | ||
| 27 | And Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there." | Balaam's third prophecy. Nu.23.27-24.13 | |
| 28 | So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the desert. | ||
| 29 | And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams." | ||
| 30 | And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. | ||
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