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Come—curse Jacob for me, "" And come—be indignant [with] Israel.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>How do I pierce [when] God has not pierced? And how am I indignant [when] YHWH has not been indignant?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For from the top of rocks I see him, "" And from heights I behold him; Behold a people! He dwells alone, "" And does not reckon himself among nations.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who has counted the dust of Jacob, "" And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, "" And let my last end be like his!”<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Balak says to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I have taken you to pierce my enemies, and behold, you have certainly blessed”; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and he answers and says, “That which YHWH puts in my mouth—do I not take heed to speak it?”<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Balak says to him, “Come! Come to another place with me, from where you see it—you see only its extremity, and you do not see all of it, and pierce it for me there”; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he takes him [to] the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and builds seven altars, and offers a bullock and a ram on the altar. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he says to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt-offering, and I meet [Him] there”; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and YHWH comes to Balaam, and sets a word in his mouth, and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.” <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he comes to him, and behold, he is standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab [are] with him, and Balak says to him: “What has YHWH spoken?”<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he takes up his allegory and says: “Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, son of Zippor!<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God [is] not a man—and lies, "" And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do [it]? And spoken—and He does not confirm it?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Behold, I have received [only] to bless; Indeed, He blesses, and I cannot reverse it.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, "" Nor has He seen perverseness in Israel; His God YHWH [is] with him, "" And a shout of a king [is] in him.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>God is bringing them out from Egypt, "" As the swiftness of a wild ox for him;<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For no enchantment [is] against Jacob, "" Nor divination against Israel; At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, "" O what God has worked!<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Behold, the people rises as a lioness, "" And he lifts himself up as a lion; He does not lie down until he eats prey, "" And drinks blood of pierced ones.”<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Balak says to Balaam, “Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all”; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and Balaam answers and says to Balak, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, All that YHWH speaks—I do it?”<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Balak says to Balaam, “Please come, I take you to another place; it may be it is right in the eyes of God to pierce it for me from there.” <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Balak takes Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness, <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and Balaam says to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this [place], and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me in this [place]”; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and Balak does as Balaam said, and he offers a bullock and a ram on an altar.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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