Numbers 23 — Chapter 23

¹And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

²And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

³And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure Yahuah (LORD) will come to meet me: and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to an high place.

⁴And Elohim (God) met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

⁵And Yahuah (LORD) put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall speak.

⁶And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

⁷And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Yashar'el (Israel).

⁸How shall I curse, whom Elohim (God) has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom Yahuah (LORD) has not defied?

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

¹⁰Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Yashar'el (Israel)? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

¹¹And Balak said unto Balaam, What have you done unto me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.

¹²And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahuah (LORD) has put in my mouth?

¹³And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray you, with me unto another place, from whence you may see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

¹⁴And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

¹⁵And he said unto Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet Yahuah (LORD) yonder.

¹⁶And Yahuah (LORD) met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

¹⁷And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What has Yahuah (LORD) spoken?

¹⁸And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor:

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

²⁰Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

²¹He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Yashar'el (Israel): Yahuah Elohav (the LORD his God) is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

²²Elohim (God) brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn.

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

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

²⁵And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

²⁶But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I you, saying, All that Yahuah (LORD) speaks, that I must do?

²⁷And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you unto another place; peradventure it will please Elohim (God) that you may curse me them from thence.

²⁸And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looks toward Jeshimon.

²⁹And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

³⁰And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.