< Numbers 23 >
1 And Balaam says to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this [place], and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me in this [place].”
and to say Balaam to(wards) Balak to build to/for me in/on/with this seven altar and to establish: prepare to/for me in/on/with this seven bullock and seven ram
2 And Balak does as Balaam has spoken, and Balak—Balaam also—offers a bullock and a ram on the altar,
and to make: do Balak like/as as which to speak: speak Balaam and to ascend: offer up Balak and Balaam bullock and ram in/on/with altar
3 and Balaam says to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt-offering and I go on, it may be YHWH comes to meet me, and the thing which He shows me I have declared to you”; and he goes [to] a high place.
and to say Balaam to/for Balak to stand upon burnt offering your and to go: went perhaps to meet LORD to/for to encounter: meet me and word: thing what? to see: see me and to tell to/for you and to go: went bareness
4 And God comes to Balaam, and he says to Him, “I have arranged the seven altars, and I offer a bullock and a ram on the altar”;
and to meet God to(wards) Balaam and to say to(wards) him [obj] seven [the] altar to arrange and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar
5 and YHWH puts a word in the mouth of Balaam and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.”
and to set: put LORD word in/on/with lip Balaam and to say to return: return to(wards) Balak and thus to speak: speak
6 And he returns to him, and behold, he is standing by his burnt-offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
and to return: return to(wards) him and behold to stand upon burnt offering his he/she/it and all ruler Moab
7 And he takes up his allegory and says: “Balak king of Moab leads me from Aram; From mountains of the east. Come—curse Jacob for me, And come—be indignant [with] Israel.
and to lift: loud proverb his and to say from (Paddan)-aram to lead me Balak king Moab from mountain front: east to go: come! [emph?] to curse [emph?] to/for me Jacob and to go: come! [emph?] be indignant [emph?] Israel
8 How do I pierce [when] God has not pierced? And how am I indignant [when] YHWH has not been indignant?
what? to curse not to curse him God and what? be indignant not be indignant LORD
9 For from the top of rocks I see him, And from heights I behold him; Behold a people! He dwells alone, And does not reckon himself among nations.
for from head: top rock to see: see him and from hill to see him look! people to/for isolation to dwell and in/on/with nation not to devise: count
10 Who has counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!”
who? to count dust Jacob and number [obj] fourth Israel to die soul: myself my death upright and to be end my like him
11 And Balak says to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I have taken you to pierce my enemies, and behold, you have certainly blessed”;
and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam what? to make: do to/for me to/for to curse enemy my to take: take you and behold to bless to bless
12 and he answers and says, “That which YHWH puts in my mouth—do I not take heed to speak it?”
and to answer and to say not [obj] which to set: put LORD in/on/with lip my [obj] him to keep: careful to/for to speak: speak
13 And Balak says to him, “Come! Come to another place with me, from where you see it—you see only its extremity, and you do not see all of it, and pierce it for me there”;
and to say to(wards) him Balak (to go: come [emph?] *Q(K)*) please with me to(wards) place another which to see: see him from there end end his to see: see and all his not to see: see and to curse me to/for me from there
14 and he takes him [to] the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and builds seven altars, and offers a bullock and a ram on the altar.
and to take: take him land: country Zophim to(wards) head: top [the] Pisgah and to build seven altar and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar
15 And he says to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt-offering, and I meet [Him] there”;
and to say to(wards) Balak to stand thus upon burnt offering your and I to meet thus
16 and YHWH comes to Balaam, and sets a word in his mouth, and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.”
and to meet LORD to(wards) Balaam and to set: put word in/on/with lip his and to say to return: return to(wards) Balak and thus to speak: speak
17 And he comes to him, and behold, he is standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab [are] with him, and Balak says to him: “What has YHWH spoken?”
and to come (in): come to(wards) him and behold he to stand upon burnt offering his and ruler Moab with him and to say to/for him Balak what? to speak: speak LORD
18 And he takes up his allegory and says: “Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, son of Zippor!
and to lift: loud proverb his and to say to arise: rise Balak and to hear: hear to listen [emph?] till me son: child his Zippor
19 God [is] not a man—and lies, And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do [it]? And spoken—and He does not confirm it?
not man God and to lie and son: child man and to be sorry: relent he/she/it to say and not to make: do and to speak: speak and not to arise: establish her
20 Behold, I have received [only] to bless; Indeed, He blesses, and I cannot reverse it.
behold to bless to take: recieve and to bless and not to return: turn back her
21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen perverseness in Israel; His God YHWH [is] with him, And a shout of a king [is] in him.
not to look evil: trouble in/on/with Jacob and not to see: see trouble in/on/with Israel LORD God his with him and shout king in/on/with him
22 God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a wild ox for him;
God to come out: send them from Egypt like/as peak wild ox to/for him
23 For no enchantment [is] against Jacob, Nor divination against Israel; At the time it is said of Jacob and Israel, O what God has worked!
for not divination in/on/with Jacob and not divination in/on/with Israel like/as time to say to/for Jacob and to/for Israel what? to work God
24 Behold, the people rises as a lioness, And he lifts himself up as a lion; He does not lie down until he eats prey, And drinks blood of pierced ones.”
look! people like/as lion to arise: rise and like/as lion to lift: raise not to lie down: lay down till to eat prey and blood slain: killed to drink
25 And Balak says to Balaam, “Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all”;
and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam also to curse not to curse him also to bless not to bless him
26 and Balaam answers and says to Balak, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, All that YHWH speaks—I do it?”
and to answer Balaam and to say to(wards) Balak not to speak: speak to(wards) you to/for to say all which to speak: speak LORD [obj] him to make: do
27 And Balak says to Balaam, “Please come, I take you to another place; it may be it is right in the eyes of God to pierce it for me from there.”
and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam to go: come! [emph?] please to take: take you to(wards) place another perhaps to smooth in/on/with eye: appearance [the] God and to curse him to/for me from there
28 And Balak takes Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,
and to take: take Balak [obj] Balaam head: top [the] Peor [the] to look upon face: surface [the] wilderness
29 and Balaam says to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this [place], and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me in this [place]”;
and to say Balaam to(wards) Balak to build to/for me in/on/with this seven altar and to establish: prepare to/for me in/on/with this seven bullock and seven ram
30 and Balak does as Balaam said, and he offers a bullock and a ram on an altar.
and to make: do Balak like/as as which to say Balaam and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar