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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"><title>Numbers 23 YLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">YLT</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">Young's Literal Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Balaam's First Oracle</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Balaam saith unto Balak, ‘Build for me in this [place] seven altars, and make ready for me in this [place] seven bullocks and seven rams.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Balak doth as Balaam hath spoken, and Balak — Balaam also — offereth a bullock and a ram on the altar, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and Balaam saith to Balak, ‘Station thyself by thy burnt-offering and I go on, it may be Jehovah doth come to meet me, and the thing which He sheweth me — I have declared to thee;’ and he goeth [to] a high place.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And God cometh unto Balaam, and he saith unto Him, ‘The seven altars I have arranged, and I offer a bullock and a ram on the altar;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and Jehovah putteth a word in the mouth of Balaam, and saith, ‘Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he turneth back unto him, and lo, he is standing by his burnt-offering, he and all the princes of Moab.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he taketh up his simile, and saith: ‘From Aram he doth lead me — Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come — curse for me Jacob, And come — be indignant [with] Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>What — do I pierce? — God hath not pierced! And what — am I indignant? — Jehovah hath not been indignant!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For from the top of rocks I see it, And from heights I behold it; Lo a people! alone it doth tabernacle, And among nations doth not reckon itself.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who hath 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> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Balak saith unto Balaam, ‘What hast thou done to me? to pierce mine enemies I have taken thee — and lo, thou hast certainly blessed;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and he answereth and saith, ‘That which Jehovah doth put in my mouth — it do I not take heed to speak?’</p> <p class="hdg">Balaam's Second Oracle</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Balak saith unto him, ‘Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, whence thou dost see it, only its extremity thou dost see, and all of it thou dost not see, and pierce it for me thence;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and he taketh him [to] the field of Zophim, unto the top of Pisgah, and buildeth seven altars, and offereth a bullock and a ram on the altar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he saith unto Balak, ‘Station thyself here by thy burnt-offering, and I — I meet [Him] there;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and Jehovah cometh unto Balaam, and setteth a word in his mouth, and saith, ‘Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he cometh unto him, and lo, he is standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him, and Balak saith to him: ‘What hath Jehovah spoken?’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he taketh up his simile, and saith: ‘Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear unto me, son of Zippor!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God [is] not a man — and lieth, And a son of man — and repenteth! Hath He said — and doth He not do [it]? And spoken — and doth He not confirm it?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Lo, to bless I have received: Yea, He blesseth, and I [can]not reverse it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Nor hath He seen perverseness in Israel; Jehovah his God [is] with him, And a shout of a king [is] in him.</p> <p class="reg"><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 Reem is to him;</p> <p class="reg"><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, What hath God wrought!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Lo, the people as a lioness riseth, And as a lion he lifteth himself up, He lieth not down till he eateth prey, And blood of pierced ones doth drink.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Balak saith unto Balaam, ‘Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>and Balaam answereth and saith unto Balak, ‘Have I not spoken unto thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh — it I do?’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Balak saith unto Balaam, ‘Come, I pray thee, I take thee unto another place; it may be it is right in the eyes of God — to pierce it for me from thence.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Balak taketh Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and Balaam saith unto Balak, ‘Build for me in this [place] seven altars, and make ready for me in this [place] seven bullocks and seven rams;’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and Balak doth as Balaam said, and he offereth a bullock and a ram on an altar.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><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 src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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