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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 23 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/numbers/23.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/23.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Numbers 23</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/22.htm" title="Numbers 22">◄</a> Numbers 23 <a href="../numbers/24.htm" title="Numbers 24">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.’ And he went to a bare height. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: ‘I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said: ‘Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he took up his parable, and said:<br></div><div class="po2">From Aram Balak bringeth me,</div><div class="po2">The king of Moab from the mountains of the East:<br></div><div class="po2">‘Come, curse me Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And come, execrate Israel.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?</div><div class="po2">And how shall I execrate, whom the LORD hath not execrated?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For from the top of the rocks I see him,</div><div class="po2">And from the hills I behold him:</div><div class="po2">Lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone,</div><div class="po2">And shall not be reckoned among the nations.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who hath counted the dust of Jacob,</div><div class="po2">Or numbered the stock of Israel?</div><div class="po2">Let me die the death of the righteous,</div><div class="po2">And let mine end be like his!</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he answered and said: ‘Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Balak said unto him: ‘Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he said unto Balak: ‘Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said: ‘Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him: ‘What hath the LORD spoken?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he took up his parable, and said:<br></div><div class="po2">Arise, Balak, and hear;</div><div class="po2">Give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God is not a man, that He should lie;</div><div class="po2">Neither the son of man, that He should repent:</div><div class="po2">When He hath said, will He not do it?</div><div class="po2">Or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, I am bidden to bless;</div><div class="po2">And when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath one seen perverseness in Israel;</div><div class="po2">The LORD his God is with him,</div><div class="po2">And the shouting for the King is among them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>God who brought them forth out of Egypt</div><div class="po2">Is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For there is no enchantment with Jacob,</div><div class="po2">Neither is there any divination with Israel;</div><div class="po2">Now is it said of Jacob and of Israel:</div><div class="po2">‘What hath God wrought!’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Behold a people that riseth up as a lioness,</div><div class="po2">And as a lion doth he lift himself up;</div><div class="po2">He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,</div><div class="po2">And drink the blood of the slain.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But Balaam answered and said unto Balak: ‘Told not I thee, saying: All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/numbers/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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