Thematic Bible
Numbers 23:1 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:2 (show verse)
And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar.
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Numbers 23:3 (show verse)
And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went [to] a barren height.
Numbers 23:4 (show verse)
And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar.
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Numbers 23:5 (show verse)
Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."
Numbers 23:6 (show verse)
So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.
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Numbers 23:7 (show verse)
And he lifted up his oracle and said, "From Aram Balak lead me, from the mountains of the east the king of Moab, 'Go for me, curse Jacob, and go, denounce Israel.'
Numbers 23:8 (show verse)
How can I curse [whom] God has not cursed, and how can I denounce [whom] Yahweh has not denounced?
Numbers 23:9 (show verse)
Because from the top of [the] rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people [who] dwell alone, they do not consider themselves among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 (show verse)
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or [as] a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!"
Numbers 23:11 (show verse)
And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!"
Numbers 23:12 (show verse)
He answered and said, "{Should I not speak} what Yahweh puts in my mouth?"
Numbers 23:13 (show verse)
Then Balak said, "Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, [but] you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there."
No Themes for this verse.
Numbers 23:14 (show verse)
So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on [each] altar
Numbers 23:15 (show verse)
Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with [Yahweh] there."
Numbers 23:16 (show verse)
Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."
Numbers 23:17 (show verse)
He came to him, and behold, he [was] standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"
Numbers 23:18 (show verse)
Then {he uttered} his oracle, and said, "Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor!
Numbers 23:19 (show verse)
God [is] not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do [it]? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it
Numbers 23:20 (show verse)
Behold, I have received [a command] to bless; when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return.
Numbers 23:21 (show verse)
He has no regard [for] evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God [is] with him, and a shout of a king [is] among them.
Numbers 23:22 (show verse)
God, who brings them out from Egypt, [is] like the strength of a wild ox for them.
Numbers 23:23 (show verse)
Because [there is] no sorcery against Jacob, and [there is] no divination against Israel. Now it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done!
Numbers 23:24 (show verse)
Look! [the] people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats [the] prey and drinks the blood of the slain."
Numbers 23:25 (show verse)
Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!"
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Numbers 23:26 (show verse)
But Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do'?"
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Numbers 23:27 (show verse)
Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps {it will be acceptable to} God, and you will curse for me from there."
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Numbers 23:28 (show verse)
So Balak took Balaam [to] the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon.
Numbers 23:29 (show verse)
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams."
Numbers 23:30 (show verse)
Balak did just as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on [each] altar.