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Numbers 23

Good News Translation GNT

1 He said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and bring me seven bulls and seven rams."

2 Balak did as he was told, and he and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

3 Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I go to see whether or not the Lord will meet me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me." So he went alone to the top of a hill,

4 and God met him. Balaam said to him, "I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each.

5 The Lord told Balaam what to say and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

6 So he went back and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering with all the leaders of Moab.

7 Balaam uttered this prophecy: "Balak king of Moab has brought me From Syria, from the eastern mountains. "Come speak for me,' he said. "Put a curse on the people of Israel.'

8 How can I curse what God has not cursed, Or speak of doom when the Lord has not?

9 From the high rocks I can see them; I can watch them from the hills. They are a nation that lives alone; They know they are blessed more than other nations.

10 The descendants of Israel are like the dust - There are too many of them to be counted. Let me end my days like one of God's people; Let me die in peace like the righteous."

11 Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, but all you have done is bless them."

12 He answered, "I can say only what the Lord tells me to say."

13 Then Balak said to Balaam, "Come with me to another place from which you can see only some of the Israelites. Curse them for me from there."

14 He took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Mount Pisgah. There also he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them

15 Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, and I will meet God over there."

16 The Lord met Balaam, told him what to say, and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

17 So he went back and found Balak still standing by his burnt offering, with the leaders of Moab. Balak asked what the Lord had said,

18 and Balaam uttered this prophecy: "Come, Balak son of Zippor, And listen to what I have to say.

19 God is not like people, who lie; He is not a human who changes his mind. Whatever he promises, he does; He speaks, and it is done

20 I have been instructed to bless, And when God blesses, I cannot call it back.

21 I foresee that Israel's future Will bring her no misfortune or trouble. The Lord their God is with them; They proclaim that he is their king

22 God has brought them out of Egypt; He fights for them like a wild ox.

23 There is no magic charm, no witchcraft, That can be used against the nation of Israel. Now people will say about Israel, "Look what God has done!'

24 The nation of Israel is like a mighty lion: It doesn't rest until it has torn and devoured, Until it has drunk the blood of those it has killed."

25 Then Balak said to Balaam, "You refuse to curse the people of Israel, but at least don't bless them!"

26 Balaam answered, "Didn't I tell you that I had to do everything that the Lord told me?"

27 Balak said, "Come with me, and I will take you to another place. Perhaps God will be willing to let you curse them for me from there."

28 So he took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor overlooking the desert.

29 Balaam said to him, "Build seven altars for me here and bring me seven bulls and seven rams."

30 Balak did as he was told, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

World English Bible WEB

1 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.

2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

3 Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.

4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar

5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.

6 He returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt- offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.

8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?

9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!

11 Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.

12 He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?

13 Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.

14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar

15 He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder.

16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.

17 He came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken?

18 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:

19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good

20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

21 He has not saw iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yahweh his God is with him, The shout of a king is among them

22 God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.

25 Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

26 But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?

27 Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.

28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

29 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.

30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.