Numbers 23

1 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

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

2 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

So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

3 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

“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

4 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

and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

5 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

Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”

6 and to return: return to(wards) him and behold to stand upon burnt offering his he/she/it and all ruler Moab

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.

7 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

And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’

8 what? to curse not to curse him God and what? be indignant not be indignant LORD

How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

9 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

For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.

10 who? to count dust Jacob and number [obj] fourth Israel to die soul: myself my death upright and to be end my like him

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”

11 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

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and behold, you have only blessed them!”

12 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

But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”

13 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

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”

14 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

So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

15 and to say to(wards) Balak to stand thus upon burnt offering your and I to meet thus

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”

16 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

And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”

17 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

So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.

18 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

Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.

19 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

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

20 behold to bless to take: recieve and to bless and not to return: turn back her

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

21 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

He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.

22 God to come out: send them from Egypt like/as peak wild ox to/for him

God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

23 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

For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

24 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

Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

25 and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam also to curse not to curse him also to bless not to bless him

Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

26 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

But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

27 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

“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”

28 and to take: take Balak [obj] Balaam head: top [the] Peor [the] to look upon face: surface [the] wilderness

And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

29 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

Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

30 and to make: do Balak like/as as which to say Balaam and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar

So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.