In the wilderness כג

¹has Balaam said to Balak: build me here seven altars, and prepare me here to seven oxen and seven rams.

²has Balak did so as Balaam has spoken, and Balak and Balaam have offered a bull and a ram on a altar.

³and Balaam has said to Balak: stand self by your olah/burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps will self me Hashem happen upon/meet across from, and that which for a thing he will me show, will I you(SG) tell. and he is having gone up on a high place.

⁴and G-d has self encountered before Balaam; and he has to him said: the seven altars have I prepared, and have offered a bull and a ram on an altar.

⁵has Hashem put a word in Balaamʼs mouth, and has said: turn self back to Balak, and so shall you (sg) speak.

⁶has he self returned to him, behold he stands by his olah/burnt offering, he and all lords of Moav.

⁷has he lifted up his incantation/oracle, and has said:

from Aram do me lead Balak,

of the mountains of the east the king of Moav:

come curse for me Yaakov,

and come curse Yisroel.

⁸how shall I curse

whom G-d (El) curses not?

and how shall I curse

whom Hashem curses not?

⁹for from top of the rocks behold I him,

and from the height look I him on.

behold, a people which rests/dwells by themselves,

and reckons self not among the peoples/nations.

¹⁰who has counted the dust of Yaakov,

and reckoned the seed (fourth part) of Yisroel?

shall die my soul the death of the upright,

and shall my end be as his own!

¹¹has Balak said to Balaam: what have you (sg) to me done? to curse my enemies have I you taken, behold surprisingly bless have you (sg) blessed.

¹²has he answered and has said: for surely, this which Hashem does enter in in my mouth, this must I to keep a watch over to speak.

¹³has Balak said to him: come with me, I entreat you, to an other place, which you (sg) will it see from there; only a part of him will you(sg) see, but in all will you(sg) him not see; and curse for me him from there.

¹⁴and he has him taken to the field Tzophim on top Pisgah, and he has built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on an altar.

¹⁵and he has said to Balak: stand self here by your olah/burnt offering, and I will go self happen upon/meet there.

¹⁶has Hashem self encountered before Balaam, and he has put a word in his mouth, and has said: turn self back to Balak, and so shall you (sg) speak.

¹⁷is he having come to him, behold he stand by his olah/burnt offering, and the lords of Moav with him; and Balak has to him said: what has Hashem spoken?

¹⁸has he lifted up his incantation/oracle, and has said:

stand up, Balak, and listen,

pay attention to me, son of Tzippor:

¹⁹not a man is G-d (El), he may lie say,

not a son of man, he shall back out have.

when he declares, will he then not do?

and when he speaks, will he it not fulfill be?

²⁰behold, bless! have I perceive/grasp,

and (has) blessed he, can I it not deter.

²¹one see not any iniquity in Yaakov,

and one knows not any injustice in Yisroel.

Hashem his G-d is with him,

and the favor of king is on him.

²²G-d (El) brings them out of Egypt,

as horns (strength) of a bison is he it.

²³because not any witchcraft/sorcery in Yaakov,

and any soothsayer/fortuneteller in Yisroel.

now shall be of Yaakov and Yisroel said:

what G-d (El) has have done!

²⁴behold, a people which stand up as a lioness,

and raise/lift self up as a lion;

he lies down self not until he devours prey,

and blood of killed (ones) drinks he.

²⁵has Balak said to Balaam: not curse shall you (sg) him curse, and not bless shall you (sg) him bless.

²⁶has Balaam answered and has said to Balak: have I not spoken to you(SG), so to say: all that which Hashem will speak, this will I do?

²⁷has Balak said to Balaam: come I entreat you, I will you take to an other place; perhaps will find favor in the eyes of in the eyes of G-d, and will for me him curse from there.

²⁸and Balak has taken Balaam to top Pe'or, which looks down on the desert (Yeshimon).

²⁹has Balaam said to Balak: build me here seven altars, and prepare me here to seven oxen/bulls and seven rams.

³⁰and Balak has done so as Balaam has said, and he has offered a bull and a ram on an altar.