And Balaam said to the agent of LORD, I have sinned, for I knew not that thou stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get back again.

And the agent of LORD said to Balaam, Go with the men, but only the word that I shall speak to thee, that thou shall speak. So Balaam went with the rulers of Balak.

And when Balak heard that Balaam came, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the outmost part of the border.

And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to thee to call thee? Why did thou not come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to thee. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the rulers that were with him.

And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, and he saw from there the outmost part of the people.

And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

And Balak did as Balaam had spoken. And Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go. Perhaps LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.

And God met Balaam, and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

And LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shall speak.

And he returned to him. And, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the rulers of Moab.

And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom LORD has not defied?

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

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

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

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which LORD puts in my mouth?

And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from where thou may see them. Thou shall see but the outmost part of them, and shall not see them all, and curse them for me from there.

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.

And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet [LORD] yonder.

And LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall thou speak.

And he came to him. And, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the rulers of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has LORD spoken?

And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Hearken to me, thou son of Zippor.

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?

Behold, I have received to bless. And he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

Behold, the people rise up as a lioness, and as a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.

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

But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that LORD speaks, that I must do?

And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take thee to another place. Perhaps it will please God that thou may curse them for me from there.

And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down upon the desert.

And Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

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

And when Balaam saw that it pleased LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at the other times, to meet with omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, and the Spirit of God came upon him.

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

he says who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open,

Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

God brings him forth out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox. He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and smite [them] through with his arrows.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him up? He who blesses thee is blessed, And he who curses thee is cursed.

And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, thou have altogether blessed them these three times.

And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not also speak to thy messengers that thou sent to me, saying,

If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind. What LORD speaks, that I will speak?

And now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will advise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

he says who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:

I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of tumult.

And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies, while Israel does valiantly.

And out of Jacob shall come he who shall have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.

And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his latter end shall come to destruction.

And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thy nest is set in the rock.

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this?

But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall come to destruction.

And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place, and Balak also went his way.

And Israel abode in Shittim. And the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab,

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.

And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor, and the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel.

And LORD said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of LORD may turn away from Israel.

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill ye every one his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.

And, behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of mee

And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.

And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the sons of Israel.

And those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

And it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the sons of Israel.

And the name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur. He was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Vex the Midianites, and smite them,

for they vex you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the ruler of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor

And it came to pass after the plague, that LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Take the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

from twenty years old and upward, as LORD commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt.

These are the families of the Reubenites. And those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.

And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were renown men of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they strove against LORD,

and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, that time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became an example.

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand and two hundred.

These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

The sons of Judah: Er and Onan, and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand and three hundred.

These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand and five hundred.

The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

and [of] Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and [of] Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

These are the families of Manasseh, and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand and seven hundred.

And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: [of Ard], the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.

These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families, and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand and six hundred.

All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand and four hundred.