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Numbers, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains
of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho. {22:2} Balak the son of Zippor
saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. {22:3} Moab was very
afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed
because of the children of Israel. {22:4} Moab said to the elders of
Midian, "Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the
ox licks up the grass of the field."
Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. {22:5} He
sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the
River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying,
"Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover
the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me. {22:6}
Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too
mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and
that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you
bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."
{22:7} The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the
rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and
spoke to him the words of Balak. {22:8} He said to them, "Lodge here
this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak
to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. {22:9} God came to
Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?" {22:10} Balaam said to
God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me, {22:11}
'Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt, it covers the surface
of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to
fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"
{22:12} God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall
not curse the people; for they are blessed."
{22:13} Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of
Balak, "Go to your land; for the LORD refuses to permit me to go with
you."
{22:14} The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and
said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."
{22:15} Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than
they. {22:16} They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak
the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:
{22:17} for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you
say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for
me.'"
{22:18} Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give
me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of
the LORD my God, to do less or more. {22:19} Now therefore, please
wait also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak to
me more."
{22:20} God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men
have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which
I speak to you, that you shall do."
{22:21} Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and
went with the princes of Moab. {22:22} God's anger was kindled because
he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an
adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two
servants were with him. {22:23} The donkey saw the angel of the LORD
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey
turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam
struck the donkey, to turn her into the way. {22:24} Then the angel of
the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on
this side, and a wall on that side. {22:25} The donkey saw the angel
of the LORD, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's
foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
{22:26} The angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow
place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to
the left. {22:27} The donkey saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay
down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the
donkey with his staff.
{22:28} The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to
Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three
times?"
{22:29} Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I
wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."
{22:30} The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which
you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the
habit of doing so to you?"
He said, "No."
{22:31} Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the
angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his
hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. {22:32} The angel
of the LORD said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three
times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is
perverse before me: {22:33} and the donkey saw me, and turned aside
before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me,
surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive."
{22:34} Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned; for I
didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it
displeases you, I will go back again."
{22:35} The angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but
only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak."
So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. {22:36} When Balak heard
that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab,
which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of
the border. {22:37} Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to
you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to
promote you to honor?"
{22:38} Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I
now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my
mouth, that shall I speak."
{22:39} Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
{22:40} Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to
the princes who were with him. {22:41} It happened in the morning,
that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of
Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
{23:1} Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
{23:2} Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered
on every altar a bull and a ram. {23:3} Balaam said to Balak, "Stand
by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to
meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you."
He went to a bare height. {23:4} 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."
{23:5} The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to
Balak, and thus you shall speak."
{23:6} He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt
offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. {23:7} 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.
{23:8} How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
{23:9} 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 reckoned among the nations.
{23:10} Who can count the dust of Jacob,
or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous!
Let my last end be like his!"
{23:11} Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you
to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."
{23:12} He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that
which the LORD puts in my mouth?"
{23:13} Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place,
where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and
shall not see them all: and curse me them from there."
{23:14} 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. {23:15} He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering,
while I meet over there."
{23:16} The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
"Return to Balak, and say this."
{23:17} 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 the LORD spoken?"
{23:18} He took up his parable, and said,
"Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
{23:19} God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor the son of man, that he should repent.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
{23:20} Behold, I have received a command to bless.
He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
{23:21} He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
The LORD his God is with him.
The shout of a king is among them.
{23:22} God brings them out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
{23:23} 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!
{23:24} Behold, the people rises up as a lioness,
As a lion he lifts himself up.
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
and drinks the blood of the slain."
{23:25} Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all."
{23:26} But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All
that the LORD speaks, that I must do?'"
{23:27} Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another
place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from
there."
{23:28} Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the
desert. {23:29} Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and
prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."
{23:30} Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a
ram on every altar.
{24:1} When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he
didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he
set his face toward the wilderness. {24:2} Balaam lifted up his eyes,
and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit
of God came on him. {24:3} He took up his parable, and said,
"Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;
{24:4} he says, who hears the words of God,
who sees the vision of the Almighty,
falling down, and having his eyes open:
{24:5} How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
and your tents, Israel!
{24:6} As valleys they are spread forth,
as gardens by the riverside,
as aloes which the LORD has planted,
as cedar trees beside the waters.
{24:7} Water shall flow from his buckets.
His seed shall be in many waters.
His king shall be higher than Agag.
His kingdom shall be exalted.
{24:8} God brings him out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
He shall eat up the nations his adversaries,
shall break their bones in pieces,
and pierce them with his arrows.
{24:9} He couched, he lay down as a lion,
as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
Everyone who curses you is cursed."
{24:10} Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his
hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my
enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three
times. {24:11} Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to
promote you to great honor; but, behold, the LORD has kept you back
from honor."
{24:12} Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers
who you sent to me, saying, {24:13} 'If Balak would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD, to do
either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what the LORD says'?
{24:14} Now, behold, I go to my people: come, I will inform you what
this people shall do to your people in the latter days."
{24:15} He took up his parable, and said,
"Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eye was closed says;
{24:16} he says, who hears the words of God,
knows the knowledge of the Most High,
and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
Falling down, and having his eyes open:
{24:17} I see him, but not now.
I see him, but not near.
A star will come out of Jacob.
A scepter will rise out of Israel,
and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
and break down all the sons of Sheth.
{24:18} Edom shall be a possession.
Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession,
while Israel does valiantly.
{24:19} Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
and shall destroy the remnant from the city."
{24:20} He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
"Amalek was the first of the nations,
But his latter end shall come to destruction."
{24:21} He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
"Your dwelling place is strong.
Your nest is set in the rock.
{24:22} Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
until Asshur carries you away captive."
{24:23} He took up his parable, and said,
"Alas, who shall live when God does this?
{24:24} But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
He also shall come to destruction."
{24:25} Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and
Balak also went his way.
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