Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Then
Balaam said to
Balak, “
Build for
me seven altars here
, and prepare for
me seven bulls
and seven rams. ”
And
Balaam said unto
Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here
seven bullocks
and seven rams.
So
Balak did as Balaam had instructed,
and Balak and Balaam offered a bull
and a ram on
each
altar
.
And
Balak did as Balaam had spoken;
and Balak and Balaam offered on
every
altar
a bullock
and a ram.
“Stay
here
by your
burnt offering while
I
am
gone
, ”
Balaam
said
to
Balak.
“Perhaps
the
LORD
will meet with
me .
And whatever
He reveals
to
me ,
I will tell you
. ”
So
Balaam
went off
to a barren
height ,
And
Balaam
said
unto
Balak,
Stand
by thy
burnt -
offering, and
I
will go:
peradventure
Jehovah
will
come
to
meet me ;
and whatsoever
he showeth
me I will tell thee
. And
he
went to a bare
height .
and God met with
him .
“
I have set
up
seven altars, ”
Balaam
said,
“
and on
each
altar
I have offered a bull
and a ram. ”
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
.
Then
the
LORD
put a message
in Balaam’s
mouth, saying
, “
Return to
Balak and give
him
this
message
. ”
And
Jehovah
put a word
in Balaam's
mouth, and
said
, Return unto
Balak ,
and thus
thou
shalt
speak
.
So
he returned to
Balak
, who
was standing there
beside
his burnt offering, with
all the princes of Moab.
And
he returned unto
him
, and,
lo,
he
was standing by
his burnt -
offering, he,
and
all the princes of Moab.
And Balaam
lifted
up an
oracle
, saying:
“
Balak brought me from
Aram
, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east .
‘
Come, ’
he
said,
‘put
a
curse on
Jacob
for
me ;
come
and denounce
Israel !’
And he
took
up his
parable
, and
said,
From
Aram
hath
Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East :
Come, curse me Jacob,
And come,
defy
Israel .
How can
I curse what
God has
not cursed? How can
I denounce
what
the
LORD
has
not denounced
?
How shall
I curse ,
whom
God hath
not cursed? And
how shall
I defy,
whom
Jehovah
hath
not defied
?
For I
see
them
from atop
the rocky
cliffs
, and I
watch
them
from the hills .
Behold, a people dwelling
apart
, not reckoning
themselves
among 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
dwelleth
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 ;
let my end be like theirs
! ”
Who can count the dust of Jacob ,
Or number the
fourth part
of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous ,
And
let my last
end be like his
!
Then
Balak said to
Balaam, “
What have
you
done to
me? I brought
you
here
to curse my
enemies, and behold, you
have
only
blessed them !”
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.
But
Balaam
replied
, “Should
I not speak exactly
what
the
LORD
puts
in my mouth? ”
And
he
answered
and
said
, Must
I not take
heed
to
speak that
which
Jehovah
putteth
in my mouth?
Then
Balak said to
him, “Please
come with me to
another place where
you
can
see them .
You
will
only
see the outskirts
of their
camp—
not all
of
them .
And from
there,
curse them
for
me. ”
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
.
So
Balak
took him to
the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where
he
built seven altars and offered a bull
and a ram on each
altar.
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.
Balaam
said to
Balak, “Stay
here beside
your
burnt offering while I meet the
LORD
over
there
. ”
And
he
said unto
Balak, Stand
here by
thy
burnt -
offering ,
while I meet `Jehovah'
yonder
.
And the
LORD
met with
Balaam and put a message
in his mouth, saying
, “
Return to
Balak and speak what
I
tell
you
. ”
And Jehovah
met Balaam ,
and put a word
in his mouth, and
said
, Return unto
Balak ,
and thus
shalt
thou
speak.
So
he returned
to Balak
, who
was standing there
by his burnt offering with
the princes of Moab. “
What did
the
LORD
say
? ”
Balak
asked.
And
he came
to him
, and,
lo,
he
was standing by his burnt -
offering ,
and
the princes of Moab with
him
. And
Balak
said
unto
him,
What hath
Jehovah
spoken
?
Then
Balaam
lifted
up an
oracle
, saying:
“Arise
, O
Balak, and listen
; give
ear
to
me, O
son of Zippor .
And
he
took
up his
parable
, and
said
, Rise
up,
Balak, and hear
; Hearken
unto
me, thou
son of Zippor :
God is not a man, that He should lie, or
a
son of man, that He should change
His
mind.
Does
He speak
and not act
? Does
He promise
and not fulfill
?
God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither
the
son of man, that he should repent:
Hath
he said,
and will
he
not do
it
? Or
hath
he spoken,
and will
he
not make
it
good
?
I have indeed
received a
command
to bless ;
He has
blessed, and I cannot change
it.
Behold,
I have received `commandment'
to bless :
And
he hath
blessed, and I cannot reverse
it.
He considers
no
disaster
for
Jacob; He sees
no
trouble
for
Israel .
The
LORD
their
God is with them
, and the shout of the
King is among them.
He hath
not
beheld
iniquity
in
Jacob; Neither
hath
he seen
perverseness
in
Israel :
Jehovah
his
God is with him
, And the shout of a
king is among them.
God brought
them out of Egypt with
strength like
a
wild ox.
God bringeth
them forth
out of Egypt ;
He
hath
as
it
were
the
strength of
the
wild -
ox.
For
there is no spell
against
Jacob and
no
divination against
Israel .
It
will
now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘
What great
things
God has
done
! ’
Surely
there is no enchantment
with
Jacob ;
Neither
is
there
any
divination with
Israel :
Now shalt
it
be said of Jacob and of
Israel, What hath
God wrought
!
Behold, the people rise
like
a lioness ;
they
rouse
themselves
like
a lion ,
not resting
until they
devour
their
prey and drink the blood of the slain. ”
Behold, the people riseth
up
as
a lioness ,
And
as
a lion doth
he
lift
himself
up:
He
shall
not lie
down
until he
eat
of
the
prey ,
And drink the blood of the slain.
Now
Balak said to
Balaam, “Then
neither curse them at all nor bless them at all !”
And
Balak said unto
Balaam, Neither curse them at all ,
nor bless them at all .
But Balaam replied
, “Did
I
not tell
you
that whatever
the
LORD
says
, I must do? ”
But Balaam answered
and
said
unto
Balak
, Told
not I
thee,
saying,
All
that Jehovah
speaketh
, that
I must do?
“Please
come,”
said
Balak, “
I will take you
to
another place .
Perhaps
it will please God that you
curse them
for
me from there
. ”
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
.
And Balak took Balaam to
the top of Peor, which
overlooks
the wasteland
.
And Balak took Balaam unto
the top of Peor, that
looketh
down
upon
the desert
.
Then
Balaam said, “
Build for
me seven altars here
, and prepare for
me seven bulls
and seven rams. ”
And
Balaam said unto
Balak
, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here
seven bullocks
and seven rams.
So
Balak did as Balaam had instructed
, and he
offered a bull
and a ram on each
altar.
And
Balak did as Balaam had said
, and offered up
a bullock
and a ram on every
altar.
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