Numbers 23

Numbers 23

 

1 Not of the People (Balaam) said to Devastator (Balak): Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven oxen and seven rams.

 

2 So Devastator (Balak) did as Not of the People (Balaam) had spoken; and Devastator (Balak) and Not of the People (Balaam) offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

 

3 Not of the People (Balaam) said to Devastator (Balak), Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) will come to meet me: and whatsoever He shows me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.

 

4 There, God ('Elohiym) met Not of the People (Balaam). He said to Him: I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

 

5 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) put a word in Not of the People's (Balaam) mouth, and said: Return to Devastator (Balak), and thus you shall speak.

 

6 So he returned to Devastator (Balak) who stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Of His Father (Moab).

 

7 Not of the People's (Balaam) took up his parable, and said: Devastator (Balak) the king of Of His Father (Moab) has brought me from Exalted (Aram), out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Heel-Grabber (Jacob) for me, and come, defy God Prevails (Israel).

 

8 How shall I curse, whom God ('Elohiym) has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has not defied?

 

9 For from the top of the rocks, I see him, and from the hills I behold him. The people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

 

10 Who can count the dust of Heel-Grabber (Jacob), and the number of the fourth part of God Prevails (Israel)? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

 

11 And Devastator (Balak) said to Not of the People (Balaam): What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, now, you have blessed them altogether.

 

12 He answered and said: I have to speak that which I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) has put in my mouth.

 

13 Devastator (Balak) said to him: Come, with me please to another place, from where you may see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse them for me from there.

 

14 So he brought him to the field of Watchers (Zophim), to the top of Cleft (Pisgah), and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

 

15 There he said to Devastator (Balak): Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) yonder.

 

16 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) met Not of the People (Balaam), and put a word in his mouth, saying: Go again to Devastator (Balak), and say this.

 

17 When he came to him, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Of His Father (Moab) with him. And Devastator (Balak) said to him: What has I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoken?

 

18 So he took up his parable, and said: Rise up, Devastator (Balak), and hear; listen to me, you son of Sparrow (Zippor):

 

19 God ('Elohiym) is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: has He said, and shall He not do it? or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?

 

20 I have received commandment to bless. He has blessed. I cannot reverse it.

 

21 He has not beheld iniquity in Heel-Grabber (Jacob), neither has he seen perverseness in God Prevails (Israel): I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) his God ('Elohiym) is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

 

22 God ('Elohiym) brought them out of Double Straights; he has the strength of a unicorn.

 

23 Surely there is no enchantment against Heel-Grabber (Jacob), neither is there any divination against God Prevails (Israel): according to this time it shall be said of Heel-Grabber (Jacob) and of God Prevails (Israel), What has God ('Elohiym) wrought!

 

24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.

 

25 Devastator (Balak) pleaded with Not of the People (Balaam): Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

 

26 But Not of the People (Balaam) answered and said to Devastator (Balak): Did I not tell you, saying: All that I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) speaks, that I must do?

 

27 Then Devastator (Balak) said to Not of the People (Balaam): Come please, I will bring you to another place; perhaps it will please God ('Elohiym) that you might curse me them from there.

 

28 So Devastator (Balak) brought Not of the People (Balaam) to the top of Cleft (Peor), that looks toward Desolation (Jeshimon).

 

29 Not of the People (Balaam) said to Devastator (Balak): Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams.

 

30 Devastator (Balak) did as Not of the People (Balaam) had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.