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1Then Balaam said to Balak, ‘Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.’[#23:1 1Ch 15:26; 2Ch 29:21; Jb 42:8; Ezk 45:23]
2So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord will meet with me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.’ So he went to a barren hill.
4God met with him and Balaam said to him, ‘I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.’
5Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, ‘Return to Balak and say what I tell you.’
6So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.
7Balaam proclaimed his poem:
Balak brought me from Aram;
the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, put a curse on Jacob for me;
come, denounce Israel! ’
8How can I curse someone God has not cursed?
How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?
9I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,
and I watch them from the hills.
There is a people living alone;
it does not consider itself among the nations.
10Who has counted the dust of Jacob[#23:10 Gn 13:16]
or numbered even quarter of Israel?
Let me die the death of the upright;
let the end of my life be like theirs.
11‘What have you done to me? ’ Balak asked Balaam. ‘I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed them! ’
12He answered, ‘Shouldn’t I say exactly what the Lord puts in my mouth? ’[#23:12 Nm 22:38]
13Then 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; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.’[#23:13 Nm 23:27]
14So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.[#23:14 Or to the field of Zophim; #23:14 Nm 21:20; Dt 3:17,27; 4:49; 34:1; Jos 12:3; 13:20]
15Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.’
16The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then he said, ‘Return to Balak and say what I tell you.’
17So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, ‘What did the Lord say? ’
18Balaam proclaimed his poem:
Balak, get up and listen;
son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!
19God is not a man, that he might lie,
or a son of man, that he might change his mind.
Does he speak and not act,
or promise and not fulfil?
20I have indeed received a command to bless;
since he has blessed, I cannot change it.
21He considers no disaster for Jacob;
he sees no trouble for Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
and there is rejoicing over the King among them.
22God brought them out of Egypt;
he is like the horns of a wild ox for them. ,
23There is no magic curse against Jacob
and no divination against Israel.
It will now be said about Jacob and Israel,
‘What great things God has done! ’
24A people rise up like a lioness;
they rouse themselves like a lion.
They will not lie down until they devour the prey
and drink the blood of the slain.
25Then Balak told Balaam, ‘Don’t curse them and don’t bless them! ’
26But Balaam answered him, ‘Didn’t I tell you: Whatever the Lord says, I must do? ’[#23:26 Nm 22:38]
27Again Balak said to Balaam, ‘Please come. I will take you to another place. Maybe it will be agreeable to God that you can put a curse on them for me there.’
28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland. ,[#23:28 Or overlooks Jeshimon; #23:28 Nm 21:20]
29Balaam told Balak, ‘Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.’[#23:29 Nm 23:1–2]
30So Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.