jps - 23

jps@Numbers:23:1 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

jps@Numbers:23:2 @ And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

jps@Numbers:23:3 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height.

jps@Numbers:23:4 @ 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.'

jps@Numbers:23:5 @ And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.'

jps@Numbers:23:6 @ And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

jps@Numbers:23:7 @ And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: 'Come, curse me Jacob, and come, execrate Israel.'

jps@Numbers:23:8 @ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I execrate, whom the LORD hath not execrated?

jps@Numbers:23:9 @ For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

jps@Numbers:23:10 @ Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, or numbered the stock of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let mine end be like his!

jps@Numbers:23:11 @ 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.'

jps@Numbers:23:12 @ And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?'

jps@Numbers:23:13 @ 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.'

jps@Numbers:23:14 @ 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.

jps@Numbers:23:15 @ And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'

jps@Numbers:23:16 @ And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.'

jps@Numbers:23:17 @ And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him: 'What hath the LORD spoken?'

jps@Numbers:23:18 @ And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear; give ear unto me, thou son of Zippor:

jps@Numbers:23:19 @ God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?

jps@Numbers:23:20 @ Behold, I am bidden to bless; and when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back.

jps@Numbers:23:21 @ None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath one seen perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shouting for the King is among them.

jps@Numbers:23:22 @ God who brought them forth out of Egypt is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.

jps@Numbers:23:23 @ For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'

jps@Numbers:23:24 @ Behold a people that 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.

jps@Numbers:23:25 @ And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.'

jps@Numbers:23:26 @ But Balaam answered and said unto Balak: 'Told not I thee, saying: All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?'

jps@Numbers:23:27 @ 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.'

jps@Numbers:23:28 @ And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.

jps@Numbers:23:29 @ And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

jps@Numbers:23:30 @ And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

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