Lo, to bless I have received: Yea, He blesseth, and I can not reverse it.

Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

"Didn't I tell you," Balaam responded to Balak, "that I'll say whatever the LORD tells me to say?"

So Balak exhorted Balaam, "Let's go right now! I'll take you to another place. Maybe God will agree to have you curse them for me from there."

and lift up his eyes and looked upon Israel as he lay with his tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him.

God is bringing them out of Egypt with the strength of an ox. He'll devour enemy nations, break their bones, and impale them with arrows.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

And the anger of Balak burneth against Balaam, and he striketh his hands; and Balak saith unto Balaam, 'To pierce mine enemies I called thee, and lo, thou hast certainly blessed -- these three times;

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.

and, now, lo, I am going to my people; come, I counsel thee concerning that which this people doth to thy people, in the latter end of the days.'

And lo, a man of the sons of Israel hath come, and bringeth in unto his brethren the Midianitess, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the company of the sons of Israel, who are weeping at the opening of the tent of meeting;

'Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace,

because the LORD had said about them, "They'll certainly die in the wilderness. No man will survive from them except Jephunneh's son Caleb and Nun's son Joshua."

And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

After you've seen it, you'll be taken to be with your people just as your brother Aaron was gathered to them,

And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the law;

and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the law;

their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the law;

and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the law;

and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the law;

and their food offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, according to the law;

their food offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the law;

"Be sure to exact vengeance on behalf of the Israelis from the Midianites, after which you'll be taken home to your people."

Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.

And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;

And much cattle hath been to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad, very many; and they see the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, and lo, the place is a place for cattle;

And lo, ye have risen in the stead of your fathers, an increase of men -- sinners, to add yet to the fury of the anger of Jehovah toward Israel;

If you stop following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness. You'll end up destroying this entire people."

and subjugated the land before him, then afterwards when you return, you'll be able to stand blameless before the LORD and before Israel. This land will then be your possession before the LORD.

'And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

"We'll do just what the LORD told your servants," the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben responded.

And they removed from Elim and lay fast by the reed sea.

And they removed from the reed sea and lay in the wilderness of Zin.

And they departed from Dophkah, and lay in Alush.

And they removed from Alush, and lay at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

And they departed from the sepulchres of lust, and lay at Hazeroth.

And they removed from mount Shepher, and lay in Harada.

And they removed from Makheloth, and lay at Tahath,

And they departed from Hashmonah, and lay at Moseroth.

And they removed from the children of Jaakan, and lay at Horhaggidgad.

And they removed from Jotbathah, and lay at Abronah.

And they departed from Abronah, and lay at Eziongeber.

And they removed from Dibongad, and lay in Almondiblathaim.

then ye shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ye shall destroy all their figured images, and all their molten images shall ye destroy, and all their high places shall ye lay waste;

But if you fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, their survivors will become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, to prick your sides and afflict you in the very land in which you'll be living.

Then, what I had planned to do to them, I'll start to do to you."

And this shall be an ordinance and a law unto you, among your children after you in all your habitations.