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Balaam’s First Message
Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
Balaam's First Oracle
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam offered up a bullock and a ram on [each] altar.
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.
And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatever he shews me I will tell thee. And he went to a hill.
God met with him, and Balaam said, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
And God met Balaam; and [Balaam] said to him, I have disposed seven altars, and have offered up a bullock and a ram upon [each] altar.
The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
And he returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Then Balaam spoke his message:
“Balak brought me from Aram,
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel.’
“Balak brought me from Aram,
the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel.’
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, curse me Jacob, and come, denounce Israel!
How can I curse
those whom God has not cursed?
How can I denounce
those whom the Lord has not denounced?
those whom God has not cursed?
How can I denounce
those whom the Lord has not denounced?
How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I denounce whom Jehovah doth not denounce?
From the rocky peaks I see them,
from the heights I view them.
I see a people who live apart
and do not consider themselves one of the nations.
from the heights I view them.
I see a people who live apart
and do not consider themselves one of the nations.
For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: Lo, [it is] a people that shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Who can count the dust of Jacob
or number even a fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and may my final end be like theirs!”
or number even a fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and may my final end be like theirs!”
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!
Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!”
And Balak said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
He answered, “Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah puts in my mouth?
Balaam’s Second Message
Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”
Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”
Balaam's Second Oracle
And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from whence thou wilt see them; thou shalt see only the extremity of them and shalt not see them all, and curse me them from thence.
And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from whence thou wilt see them; thou shalt see only the extremity of them and shalt not see them all, and curse me them from thence.
So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
And he took him to the watchmen's field, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on [each] altar.
Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”
And [Balaam] said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, and I will go to meet yonder.
The Lord met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?”
And he came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him; and Balak said to him, What has Jehovah spoken?
Then he spoke his message:
“Arise, Balak, and listen;
hear me, son of Zippor.
“Arise, Balak, and listen;
hear me, son of Zippor.
Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! hearken unto me, son of Zippor!
God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good?
I have received a command to bless;
he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
Behold, I have received [mission] to bless; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen wrong in Israel; Jehovah his God is with him, and the shout of a king is in his midst.
God brought them out of Egypt;
they have the strength of a wild ox.
they have the strength of a wild ox.
God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.
For there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. At this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
The people rise like a lioness;
they rouse themselves like a lion
that does not rest till it devours its prey
and drinks the blood of its victims.”
they rouse themselves like a lion
that does not rest till it devours its prey
and drinks the blood of its victims.”
Lo, the people will rise up as a lioness, and lift himself up as a lion. He shall not lie down until he have eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
Balaam answered, “Did I not tell you I must do whatever the Lord says?”
And Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that Jehovah shall speak, that will I do?
Balaam’s Third Message
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”
And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee to another place; perhaps it will be right in the sight of God that thou curse me them from thence.
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks over the surface of the waste.
Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.