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6 Now listen to what Yahweh says,
“Take action, present your case to the mountains.
≈ and let the hills hear your voice.
2 Listen to Yahweh’s lawsuit, you mountains,
≈ and you enduring foundations of the earth,
because Yahweh has a lawsuit with his people,
≈ and he’ll present evidence against Yisrael.”
3 “My people, what have I done to you?
How have I worn you down?
Present your case against me.
4 I rescued you out of slavery
≈ and brought you out of Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim).
I sent Mosheh, Aharon, and Miryam to you.[ref]
5 My people, remember what Moav’s King Balak devised,
and how Beor’s son Balaam answered that king
as you went from Shittim to Gilgal.
Think about that so you can know Yahweh’s righteous actions.”[ref]
Exo 12:50-51:
50 All the Israelis followed those instructions that Yahweh had given through Mosheh and Aharon, 51 and so on that very day, Yahweh took all the Israelis out of Egypt grouped by their family divisions.
Exo 4:10-16:
10 “Oh my master,” Mosheh responded, “I’m not very good at speaking to others—I never have been and still aren’t. I seem to get tongue-tied easily.”
11 “Who was it that made people’s mouths?” Yahweh said. “Who makes someone mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Isn’t it me, Yahweh? 12 So get going now, and I’ll look after your mouth and show you what you to say.”
13 But Mosheh replied, “Oh master, please send someone else.”
14 Then Yahweh got angry with Mosheh and told him, “Isn’t Aharon (Aaron) a fellow Levite and your brother? I know that he can speak well, and what’s more, he’ll come from Egypt to meet you, and when he does, he’ll be very happy. 15 He’ll become your speaker and you’ll be able to talk to him and tell him what to say. I’ll be helping both of you speak and I’ll teach you both what you should do. 16 So in that way, he’ll be like a mouth for you and speak to the people for you, and you’ll be like God to him.
Exo 15:20:
15:20 Miryam’s song
20 Then Aharon’s sister Miryam who was a prophetess, picked up a tambourine and went outside. All the other women did likewise and followed her out to dance together
Num 22:2–24:25:
2 The Moabite King Balak (Tsipor’s son), saw everything that Yisrael had done to the Amorites, 3 and when he realised that the Israelis were very numerous, the Moabite people became sick with fear. 4 and they told the elders at Midyan, “Now all that lot will devour everything that’s around us, just like a cow completely cleans out a green field.”
Now Tsipor’s son Balak was Moav’s king at that time, 5 and he sent messengers to Beor’s son Bileam (Balaam) at Petor (which was their tribal land near the Euphrates river). He requested help, saying, “Listen, there’s a population here that came out from Egypt. Wow, they’ve covered the entire surface in this region and they’re living opposite me.[ref] 6 So now please come and curse this people group for me because they are more numerous than us, then perhaps I’ll be able to attack them and drive them out of the area, because I know that anyone you bless will be blessed, and those who you curse will be cursed.”
7 So the elders from Moav and from Midyan departed carrying the fees for divination with them, and they went to Bileam and passed Balak’s words on to him. 8 Bileam told them, “Stay here tonight, and in the morning, I’ll bring you back answer, depending on what Yahweh tels me,” and so the Moav leaders stayed there with Bileam.
9 That night, God came to Bileam and asked, “Who are those men with you?”
10 “Tsipor’s son, King Balak from Moav sent me a message,” Bileam replied. 11 “He said that shockingly a people group has come out of Egypt and has covered his region. He wants me to go and curse them for him, so that he’ll be able to attack them and drive them out of that area.”
12 Then God told Bileam, “Don’t go with them—you mustn’t curse those people, because they’re blessed.” 13 The next morning, Bileam went over and told Balak’s messengers, “Go back to your place, because Yahweh has refused to let me go with you.” 14 So the Moav leaders stood up and went back to King Balak, and told him, “Bileam refused to come with us.”
15 However, Balak sent back a larger group of leaders who were even more senior than the first ones, 16 and they went and told Bileam, “Tsipor’s son King Balak says, ‘Please don’t refuse to come here, 17 because I’ll honour you highly and do anything that you tell me to. Just please come and curse this population for me.’ ”
18 “Even if Balak gave me a houseful of gold and sliver,” Bileam told Balak’s servant, “I still couldn’t go against Yahweh’s instructions, even if it was just to do something small. 19 However, please do stay here tonight, and I’ll find out if Yahweh might have anything else to say to me.”
20 That night, God came to Bileam and told him, “If those men have come to summon you, get ready and go with them, except that you must only give the message that I’ll tell you.” 21 So in the morning, Bileam got ready and saddled his donkey, and went with the Moav leaders.
22:21 The donkey talks
22 However, God got angry because he’d gone, and Yahweh’s messenger stood in the middle of the road to block them. As Bileam rode on his donkey, accompanied by his two servants, 23 the donkey saw Yahweh’s messenger standing there holding a sword in the middle of the road and turned off the road and went into a field. So Bileam whacked the donkey and forced it back onto the road. 24 Then Yahweh’s messenger moved to a place where the road was very narrow, with vineyard walls on each side of the road. 25 When the donkey saw Yahweh’s messenger, it squeezed close by the wall, and in doing so, squashed Bileam’s foot against the wall, so he whacked it again. 26 Then Yahweh’s messenger went past again and stood in a narrow place on the road where there was no room to get past on either side. 27 This time, when the donkey saw the messenger, it lay down on the ground with Bileam sitting on top of it. Bileam got very angry and whacked the donkey again with his staff. 28 Then Yahweh enabled the donkey to speak, and it asked Bileam, “What did I do to you that you beat me these three times?”
29 “Because you’ve been messing me around!” Bileam shouted. “If only I’d been carrying a sword, then I would have killed you!”
30 “Aren’t I your donkey that you’ve ridden all your life?” the donkey asked Bileam. “Have I ever done anything like that to you before?”
And he said, “No.”
31 Then Yahweh uncovered Bileam’s eyes and he saw Yahweh’s messenger standing in the middle of the road with his sword in his hand, and Bileam fell to his knees and kept bowing his face to the ground. 32 Yahweh’s angel asked him, “Why did you strike you donkey those three times? Listen, I came personally to oppose you because you’re choosing a very dangerous path as far as I’m concerned. 33 Your donkey saw me and avoided me those three times—if it hadn’t I certainly would have killed you already, but I would have let the donkey live.”
34 “Yes, I’ve done wrong,” Bileam said to Yahweh’s messenger, “because I didn’t know that you were waiting for me there on the road. But now, if you don’t want me to continue, I’ll return home again.”
35 “Continue on with those men,” Yahweh’s angel told Bileam, “but make sure that you only pass on the message that I give you.” So Bileam carried on with Balak’s leaders.
22:35 Balak welcomes Bileam
36 When King Balak heard that Bileam was coming, he went out to meeting him at a city in Moav that was on his border beside the Arnon river. 37 He asked Bileam, “Didn’t I send an urgent message to summon you? Why didn’t you come then? Did you think I couldn’t pay you enough?”
38 “Look, I’ve come now,” Bileam answered Balak, “but can I say whatever I want? No, I have to deliver whatever message God gives me.” 39 So then Bileam went to Kiryat-Hutsot with Balak, 40 where Balak sacrificed sheep and cattle, and gave some of the meat to Bileam and to the leaders who were with them. 41 The next morning, Balak took Bileam uphill to Bamot-Baal, and from there they could see the outskirts of the Israeli camp.
23 Then Bileam said to King Balak, “Get them to build seven altars for me here, and prepare me seven bulls and seven rams.”
2 So Balak did what Bileam had instructed, then the two of them offered up a bull and a ram on each altar. 3 Then Bileam told Balak, “You stand here beside your burnt offering, and I’ll move away. Perhaps Yahweh will want to meet me, and then I’ll tell you whatever he shows me.” Then he went to a bare hilltop 4 where God met him, and Bileam told him, “I organised seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.”
5 Then Yahweh gave Bileam a message and told him, “Go back to Balak and tell him that.” 6 So he went back to Balak who was still standing by his burnt offering along with all of Moav’s officials.
7 So Bileam gave his pronouncement,
“It’s Balak has brought me here from Aram.
≈ Moav’s king summoned me from the eastern mountains.
‘Go curse Yakov (Jacob) for me,
8 How can I curse those who God hasn’t cursed?
≈ How can I denounce those who Yahweh hasn’t denounced?
9 Yes, I can see them from the top of those rocks.
≈ I look at them from the hills.
Look, a population that lives by itself.
≈ It doesn’t count itself among the other nations.
10 Who can count the dust that Yakov leaves behind?
≈ Who can even count a quarter of the Israelis?
Let me die like those honourable people,
≈ and let my end be like theirs.”
11 But Balak demanded from Bileam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and blast it all—you’ve actually blessed them!”
12 “Shouldn’t I be careful to only say what Yahweh tells me?” Bileam answered back.
23:12 Bileam’s second blessing
13 Then King Balak told Bileam, “Please come with me to another place that you’ll be able to see them from. You won’t be able to see all of them, only the edge of that large group, but you’ll will curse Yisrael for me from there.” 14 So he took Bileam to a field at the top of Mt. Pisgah, and he built seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.
15 Bileam said to the king, “You stand here beside your burnt offering, while I go over there so Yahweh can meet me.”
16 Then Yahweh met with Bileam and gave him a message and told him, “Go back to Balak, and give him that message.” 17 So he returned to him where he was standing with the leaders from Moav beside the altar, and Balak asked him, “What did Yahweh say?”
18 Then Bileam gave his speech,
“Look here, Balak, and listen.
≈ Pay attention to me, son of Tsipor.
19 God doesn’t lie because he’s not a human being,
≈ and he’s not a mortal who might change his mind.
Whatever he’s said, he’ll do it.
≈ Anything he promised, he’ll make it happen.
20 Listen, I’ve received a command to bless.
≈ Yes, he’s decided to bless and I can’t reverse it.
21 Yahweh hasn’t considered hardship for Yakov (Jacob),
≈ and he hasn’t seen trouble for Yisrael (Israel).
His god Yahweh is with that people group,
and the king’s shout is over him.
22 God brought them out of Egypt (Heb. Mitsrayim),
→ giving them strength like a wild bull’s horns.
23 No, there’s no spell against Yakov,
≈ and no divination against Yisrael.
People will talk about Yakov/Yisrael,
→ saying look what God has done.
24 That population stands up like a lioness,
≈ and like a lion, it lifts itself up.
It won’t lie down until it’s devour its prey
and drunk the blood of those it killed.”
25 Then King Balak scolded Bileam, “Even if you won’t curse them, definitely don’t bless them!”
26 “Didn’t I already tell you,” Bileam answered Balak, “that I can only pronounce what Yahweh tells me to.”
23:26 Bileam’s third prophecy
27 Then King Balak told Bileam, “Come with me. I’ll take you to another place. Perhaps it will pleased God if you curse them for me from there.” 28 So Balak took him to the top of Mt. Peor that faces down to the wilderness, 29 and again Bileam told him, “Build seven altars and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.” 30 So Balak followed those instructions and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
24 By now, Bileam had realised that Yahweh wanted to bless the Israelis, so he didn’t use his usual divinations but instead, he just looked towards the wilderness. 2 He looked up and saw Yisrael in their tents laid out by tribe. Then God’s spirit came onto him, 3 and he made his pronouncement,
“This is the declaration of Bileam, son of Beor—
≈ the utterance of a man whose eyes are open.
4 The declaration of someone who heard God’s message,
≈ someone who sees the all-powerful one’s vision,
who bows to the ground with his eyes wide open.
5 Yes Yakov, your tents look good.
≈ Yes Yisrael, the places where you’re living:
6 They stretch out like a riverbed.
≈ Like gardens beside a river.
Like palms that Yahweh has planted,
≈ Like cedar trees beside the waters.
7 Water will spill over the top of his buckets,
and his descendants will flow out like water.
Yisrael’s king will be greater than King Agag,
and his kingdom will become honoured.
8 God is bringing him here from Egypt
with power like the horns of a wild bull.
He’ll devastate those nations that oppose him.
He’ll break their bones, and his arrows will pierce them.
9 He crouched—lying down like a lion or a lioness.
Those who bless, you will be blessed,
^ but those who curse you, will be cursed.[ref]
10 Then King Balak got very angry with Bileam, and he banged his hands together and said angrily, “I called you to curse my enemies, and blast you, you’ve actually blessed them three times now! 11 Now get back to where you came from! I said that I’d honour you very well, but man, Yahweh has kept you from any honour!”
12 But Bileam replied, “Didn’t I also tell the messengers that you sent to me that 13 even if you gave me a house full of gold and siler, I wouldn’t be able to say anything other than what Yahweh tells me—whether good or evil? Whatever Yahweh tells me, that’s what I have to say. 14 So yes, I’ll go back home now, but first, allow me to tell you what that people group will do to your people in the future.”
15 Then Bileam gave this pronouncement to Balak,
“This is the declaration of Bileam, son of Beor—
≈ the utterance of a man whose eyes are open.
16 The statement from someone who hears God’s messages,
≈ and the one who receives knowledge from the highest one,
who sees visions from the powerful one.
≈ The one who falls to his knees with his eyes opened.
≈ I’ll look at him, but he’s not close.
A star has marched out from Yakov (Jacob),
≈ and a staff has risen from Yisrael (Israel).
≈ and destroy all of Shet’s (Seth’s) descendants.
18 Edom will become their possession,
≈ as will his enemy, Seir.
Yisrael will project strength.
19 A ruler will come from Yakov,
→ and destroy the city’s survivors.”
20 Then Bileam looked towards Amalek and made this pronouncement,
“Amalek is the first of the nations,
^ but its end will be destruction.”
21 Then he looked towards the Kenites and made this pronouncement,
“Your dwelling is permanent,
≈ and your nest is set in the cliffs.
22 but you Kenites will be destroyed
when Ashhur (the Assyrians) take you captive.”
23 Then finally, Bileam made this pronouncement,
“Oh dear, who can survive when God does all that?
24 Ships will come from the Kittim coast (Cyprus),
and they’ll damage Asshur and Ever,
but they themselves will be destroyed as well.”
25 Then Bileam packed up and went home, and King Balak also went on his way.
Josh 3:1–4:19:
3 Early the next morning, Yehoshua and the people got up early and set off from Acacia Grove and went as far as the Yordan River and camped there without crossing over. 2 After three days, the leaders went throughout the camp 3 and instructed the people, “As soon as you all see the box containing the agreement with your god Yahweh, and see the Levitical priests carrying it, then you yourselves should move out from your places and follow after it. 4 But keep about nine hundred metres back from it. Don’t go any closer than that so that you all can see the way to go, because we haven’t been this way before.”
5 Then Yehoshua told the people, “Make sure you all do the ritual washing to make yourselves pure, because tomorrow Yahweh will do miracles among us.” 6 And he told the priests, “Lift up the box with the agreement, and walk across here in front of the people.” So they lifted up the sacred chest and went and stood in front of all the people.
7 Then Yahweh told Yehoshua, “Today I’ll begin to make you powerful in the eyes of all Yisrael (Israel) so they’ll know that I’m with you just like I was with Mosheh. 8 Tell the priests who are carrying the sacred chest that as soon as they come to the edge of the river, they should go in just a little and then stop there.”
9 Then Yehoshua told the Israelis, “Gather around here and listen to your god Yahweh’s message.” 10 He told them, “This is how you’ll all know that God, who can do anything, is among you. With your own eyes, you’ll all see how he’ll take away the land from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Yebusites. 11 Listen, the sacred chest containing the slabs that belongs to the master who owns the whole world, is about to be taken across the Yordan in front of you. 12 So now, select one man from each of your twelve tribes, 13 and as soon as the priests carrying the sacred chest go into the Yordan, as soon as their feet touch the water, the river water on the upstream side will pile up in a heap.”
14 So once the people had packed up their tents ready to cross the river, the priests carrying the sacred box walked ahead in front of them. 15 Then as soon as those priests steeped into the edge of the fast-flowing river (because it overflowed its banks at harvest time in the spring), 16 then the water coming from upstream suddenly stopped flowing. The water far upstream piled up near a town called Adam (near Tsaretan), and the water that normally flowed down towards the Sea of Arabah (also called the Dead Sea or the Salt Sea) stopped flowing, so the people were able to cross what was the Yordan River opposite Yericho. 17 The priests carrying the sacred chest with Yahweh’s agreement in it, stood on firm, dry ground in what had been the middle of the river. All the Israelis crossed over on dry ground until everyone was across.
4 Once all the people had crossed over the Yordan River, Yahweh told Yehoshua, 2 “Take those twelve men that the people selected from each tribe, 3 and give them these instructions: Pick up twelve boulders from here in the middle of the Yordan from near where the priests are standing, and bring them over with you, and put them in the place where you all camp tonight.”
4 So Yehoshua called over the twelve men, one from each tribe, 5 and told them, “Cross back to where your god Yahweh’s box is in the middle of the Yordan and each of you should pick up a rock and carry it back on your shoulder—one stone each on your shoulder to match the number of tribes of Yisra’el’s sons. 6 Those boulders will be a monument for all the people. In the future when your children ask what those boulders mean, 7 then you’ll all be able to tell them that the water in the Yordan River was cut off ahead of the box with Yahweh’s agreement. When it crossed over into the river, the water in the river stopped flowing, and those boulders are a memorial for the Israelis forever.
8 So the Israelis did just what Yehoshua had told them to do, and they picked up twelve boulders from the Yordan, just as Yahweh had instructed Yehoshua, and brought them over to where the people were camping and placed them down there. 9 Then Yehoshua stacked up twelve other boulders in the middle of the Yordan where the feet of the priests carrying the box with the agreement had been, and they remain there until today. 10 The priests carrying the box had stood in the middle of the Yordan until everything that Yahweh had instructed Yehoshua to pass on to the people was done, just as Mosheh had also instructed Yehoshua, and the people had rapidly crossed over.
11 As soon as all the people had crossed over, the priests carrying Yahweh’s box also crossed over in front of the people. 12 The soldiers from the tribes of Reuben, and Gad and the half-tribe of Menashsheh had marched over ahead of the rest of the Israeli, as Mosheh had agreed with them. 13 (There were around forty thousand of them, armed and ready for battle, and they were heading to the plains of Yericho for the battle there.) 14 On that day, Yahweh helped Yehoshua to look powerful in the eyes of the people, and they respected him just as they had respected Mosheh all the days of his[fn] life.
15 Then Yahweh told Yehoshua, 16 “Now order the priests carrying the box with the agreement to come up out of what was the Yordan River,” 17 so Yehoshua instructed the priests to come on up from the Yordan. 18 As soon as the priests carrying the box with Yahweh’s agreement came up out of what had been the Yordan River and their feet stepped onto what had been dry land, the river water returned to its place and overflowed it banks as it had been doing for the previous few days.
19 The people had come up from the river valley around the end of March and they camped east of Yericho at Gilgal,
4:14 The Hebrew doesn’t make it clear here whether the writer meant all of Mosheh’s life or all of Yehoshua’s life, so translations will vary.
