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The Book of Numbers 23

23 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me in this place seven altars, and prepare for me in this place seven bulls and seven rams.” 2 And Balak did just as Balaam had said, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on the altar. 3 And Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will be met to meet me, and I will declare to you the word of what he shows me.” And he went to a bare high place. 4 And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, “I have arranged seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on the altar.” 5 And Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak and speak thus.” 6 And he returned to him, and behold, he was stationed beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab. 7 And he lifted up his oracle and said,

“Balak has led me from Aram,

the king of Moab from the mountains of the east.

‘Go curse Jacob for me,

and go denounce Israel.’

8 How can I curse? God has not cursed.

And how can I denounce? Yahweh has not denounced.

9 For from the head of the rocks I see him.

And from the hills I look at him.

Behold, the people dwells by itself

and it does not reckon itself among the nations.

10 Who can count the dust of Jacob

or number the fourth part of Israel?

Let my life die the death of the upright ones,

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 blessed indeed!” 12 And he answered and said, “Should I not be careful to speak it that Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

13 And Balak said to him, “Please go with me to another place from which you can see him. You will only see his edge, and you will not see all of him, and you will curse him for me from there.” 14 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the head of the Pisgah, and he built seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on the altar. 15 Then he said to Balak, “Station yourself here beside your burnt offering, and I will be met with there.” 16 And Yahweh met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and he said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” 17 And he came to him, and behold, he was stationed beside his altar, and the leaders of Moab were with him; and Balak said to him, “What did Yahweh speak?” 18 And he lifted up his oracle and said,

“Rise up, Balak, and listen.

Give ear to me, son of Zippor.

19 God is not a man, that he would lie,

Or a son of mankind, that he would change his mind.

Has he said and not done,

Or spoken and not made it arise? 20 Behold, I have received to bless.

And he has blessed, and I cannot turn it back.

21 He has not looked at hardship in Jacob

and he has not seen trouble in Israel.

Yahweh his God is with him,

and the shout of the king is with him. 22 God is bringing them out from Egypt

like the horns of a wild ox for him.

23 For there is no omen against Jacob,

and no divination against Israel.

At this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,

‘What God has done!’

24 Look, a people rises like a lioness,

and like a lion he lifts himself up.

He will not lie down until he eats prey

and drinks the blood of the pierced ones.”

25 And Balak said to Balaam, “Even do not curse him at all! Also, do not bless him at all!” 26 And Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, it I must do?’” 27 And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will be right in the eyes of God, and you will curse him for me from there.” 28 And Balak took Balaam to the head of the Peor, looking down on the face of the wasteland. 29 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me in this place seven altars and prepare for me in this place seven bulls and seven rams.” 30 And Balak did just as Balaam had said, and he offered up a bull and a ram on the altar.

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