ULT NUM Chapter 23

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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 as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam made a bull and a ram go up on the altar.

3 And Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself beside your burnt offering, and let me go. Perhaps Yahweh will encounter to meet me, and the word of what he makes me see, I will declare to you.” And he went to a bare height.

4 And God encountered Balaam, and he said to him, “I arranged the seven altars, and I made a bull and a ram go up on the altar.” 5 And Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam, and he said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” 6 And he returned to him, and behold, being stationed beside his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

7 And he lifted up his oracle and said,

“From Aram Balak has led me,

the king of Moab from the mountains of the east:

‘Come, curse Jacob for me,

and come, denounce Israel.’

8 What will I curse? God has not cursed.

And what will I denounce? Yahweh has not denounced.

9 For from a head of rocks I see him,

and from hills I look at him.

Behold, a people dwells alone,

and among the nations it does not reckon itself.

10 Who has counted the dust of Jacob,

or a number, the fourth of Israel?

May my soul die a death of upright ones,

and may my end be like his!

11 And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, and behold, blessing, you have blessed!”

12 And he answered and said, “Is it not what Yahweh puts in my mouth, it I shall keep to speak?”

13 And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you will see him. Only his end you will see, and all of him you will not see. And 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 made a bull and a ram go up on the altar. 15 And he said to Balak, “Station yourself thus beside your burnt offering, and I will encounter thus.”

16 And Yahweh encountered 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 him being stationed beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”

18 And he lifted up his oracle and said,

“Rise, Balak, and hear!

Give ear unto me, son of him, Zippor!

19 God is not a man that he lies,

or a son of a man that he changes his mind.

Has he said and will not do?

And has he spoken and will not raise up?

20 Behold, to bless I have taken,

and he has blessed, and I cannot return it.

21 He has not looked at iniquity in Jacob,

and he has not seen trouble in Israel.

Yahweh his God is with him,

and the shout of a king is in him.

22 God is bringing them out from Egypt;

as the horns of a wild ox for him.

23 For there is no omen against Jacob,

and no divination against Israel.

According to the time it will be said to Jacob and to Israel,

‘What has God done!’

24 Behold, a people rises up like a lioness,

and like a lion it lifts itself up.

It will not lie down until it eats prey

and drinks blood of slain ones.”

25 And Balak said to Balaam, “Both cursing, you shall not curse him, and blessing, you shall not bless him!” 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, please, let me 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, the one looking down upon 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 as Balaam had said, and he made a bull and a ram go up on the altar.

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