Numbers 23:1WEB
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
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Numbers 23:1WEB
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Numbers 23:2WEB
Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
Numbers 23:3WEB
Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:4WEB
God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
Numbers 23:5WEB
Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:6WEB
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Numbers 23:7WEB
He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
Numbers 23:8WEB
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:9WEB
For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.
Numbers 23:10WEB
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
Numbers 23:11WEB
Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
Numbers 23:12WEB
He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:13WEB
Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
Numbers 23:14WEB
He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
Numbers 23:15WEB
He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
Numbers 23:16WEB
Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:17WEB
He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:18WEB
He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
Numbers 23:19WEB
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
Numbers 23:20WEB
Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
Numbers 23:21WEB
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:22WEB
God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
Numbers 23:23WEB
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’
Numbers 23:24WEB
Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 23:25WEB
Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
Numbers 23:26WEB
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do’?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 23:27WEB
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.”
Numbers 23:28WEB
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
Numbers 23:29WEB
Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
Numbers 23:30WEB
Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.