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

And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of 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

And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every 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

And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.

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 when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf 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

And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

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

Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:

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 taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.

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

How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?

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

I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned 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, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.

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

And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest 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

He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

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

Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.

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

And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram,

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

He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.

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 when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

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

Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?

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

But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

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, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfill?

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

I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

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

There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

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

God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

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

There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

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 shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the 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

And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.

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

And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would 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

And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

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

And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

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

Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of 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

Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.