Liber Numeri 23

1 dixitque Balaam ad Balac aedifica mihi hic septem aras et para totidem vitulos eiusdemque numeri arietes

And he said Balaam to Balak build for me in this [place] seven altars and prepare for me in this [place] seven young bulls and seven rams.

2 cumque fecisset iuxta sermonem Balaam inposuerunt simul vitulum et arietem super aram

And he did Balak just as he had spoken Balaam and he offered up Balak and Balaam a young bull and a ram on the altar.

3 dixitque Balaam ad Balac sta paulisper iuxta holocaustum tuum donec vadam si forte occurrat mihi Dominus et quodcumque imperaverit loquar tibi

And he said Balaam to Balak take your stand with burnt offering your so let me go perhaps he will meet Yahweh to meet me and [the] word of whatever he will show me and I will tell to you and he went a bare height.

4 cumque abisset velociter occurrit ei Deus locutusque ad eum Balaam septem inquit aras erexi et inposui vitulum et arietem desuper

And he met God Balaam and he said to him [the] seven the altars I have arranged and I have offered up a young bull and a ram on the altar.

5 Dominus autem posuit verbum in ore eius et ait revertere ad Balac et haec loqueris

And he put Yahweh a word in [the] mouth of Balaam and he said return to Balak and thus you will speak.

6 reversus invenit stantem Balac iuxta holocaustum suum et omnes principes Moabitarum

And he returned to him and there! [he was] standing with burnt offering his he and all [the] leaders of Moab.

7 adsumptaque parabola sua dixit de Aram adduxit me Balac rex Moabitarum de montibus orientis veni inquit et maledic Iacob propera et detestare Israhel

And he lifted up oracle his and he said from Aram he led me Balak [the] king of Moab from [the] mountains of [the] east come! curse! for me Jacob and come! denounce! Israel.

8 quomodo maledicam cui non maledixit Deus qua ratione detester quem Dominus non detestatur

What? will I curse [one whom] not he has cursed him God and what? will I denounce [one whom] not he has denounced Yahweh.

9 de summis silicibus videbo eum et de collibus considerabo illum populus solus habitabit et inter gentes non reputabitur

For from [the] top of [the] rocks I see him and from [the] hills I observe him there! a people [which] alone it dwells and among the nations not it reckons itself.

10 quis dinumerare possit pulverem Iacob et nosse numerum stirpis Israhel moriatur anima mea morte iustorum et fiant novissima mea horum similia

Who? has he counted [the] dust of Jacob and a number [the] fourth part of Israel let it die self my [the] death of upright [people] and let it be end my like his.

11 dixitque Balac ad Balaam quid est hoc quod agis ut malediceres inimicis vocavi te et tu e contrario benedicis eis

And he said Balak to Balaam what? have you done to me to curse enemies my I took you and here! you have blessed actually.

12 cui ille respondit num aliud possum loqui nisi quod iusserit Dominus

And he answered and he said ¿ not [that] which he will put Yahweh in mouth my it will I take care to speak.

13 dixit ergo Balac veni mecum in alterum locum unde partem Israhelis videas et totum videre non possis inde maledicito ei

And he said to him Balak (come there! *Q(K)*) please with me to a place another where you will see it from there only outskirt[s] its you will see and all of it not you will see and curse it for me from there.

14 cumque duxisset eum in locum sublimem super verticem montis Phasga aedificavit Balaam septem aras et inpositis supra vitulo atque ariete

And he took him [the] field of Zophim to [the] top of Pisgah and he built seven altars and he offered up a young bull and a ram on the altar.

15 dixit ad Balac sta hic iuxta holocaustum tuum donec ego pergam obvius

And he said to Balak take your stand thus with burnt offering your and I I will meet thus.

16 cui cum Dominus occurrisset posuissetque verbum in ore eius ait revertere ad Balac et haec loqueris ei

And he met Yahweh Balaam and he put a word in mouth his and he said return to Balak and thus you will speak.

17 reversus invenit eum stantem iuxta holocaustum suum et principes Moabitarum cum eo ad quem Balac quid inquit locutus est Dominus

And he went to him and there he [was] standing with burnt offering his and [the] leaders of Moab [were] with him and he said to him Balak what? has he spoken Yahweh.

18 at ille adsumpta parabola sua ait sta Balac et ausculta audi fili Sepphor

And he lifted up oracle his and he said arise O Balak and hear give ear! to me [O] son his Zippor.

19 non est Deus quasi homo ut mentiatur nec ut filius hominis ut mutetur dixit ergo et non faciet locutus est et non implebit

Not [is] a human God so he may lie and a son of humankind so he may change his mind ¿ he has he said and not will he act? and has he spoken? and not will he fulfill? it.

20 ad benedicendum adductus sum benedictionem prohibere non valeo

Here! [surely] blessing I have received and he has blessed and not I will turn back it.

21 non est idolum in Iacob nec videtur simulacrum in Israhel Dominus Deus eius cum eo est et clangor victoriae regis in illo

Not he has looked at disaster in Jacob and not he has seen trouble in Israel Yahweh God his [is] with him and a shout of a king [is] among him.

22 Deus eduxit eum de Aegypto cuius fortitudo similis est rinocerotis

God [is] bringing out them from Egypt like [the] horns of a wild ox [belong] to him.

23 non est augurium in Iacob nec divinatio in Israhel temporibus suis dicetur Iacob et Israheli quid operatus sit Deus

For not enchantment [is] in Jacob and not divination [is] in Israel about this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel what! has he done God.

24 ecce populus ut leaena consurget et quasi leo erigetur non accubabit donec devoret praedam et occisorum sanguinem bibat

There! a people like a lion it rises and like a lion it lifts itself up not it will lie down until it will devour prey and [the] blood of [those] slain it will drink.

25 dixitque Balac ad Balaam nec maledicas ei nec benedicas

And he said Balak to Balaam neither at all not you will curse it nor at all not you will bless it.

26 et ille nonne ait dixi tibi quod quicquid mihi Deus imperaret hoc facerem

And he answered Balaam and he said to Balak ¿ not did I speak to you saying all that he will speak Yahweh it I will do.

27 et ait Balac ad eum veni et ducam te ad alium locum si forte placeat Deo ut inde maledicas eis

And he said Balak to Balaam come! please let me take you to a place another perhaps it will be pleasing in [the] eyes of God and you will curse it for me from there.

28 cumque duxisset eum super verticem montis Phogor qui respicit solitudinem

And he took Balak Balaam [the] top of Peor which looks down over [the] face of the desolate place.

29 dixit ei Balaam aedifica mihi hic septem aras et para totidem vitulos eiusdemque numeri arietes

And he said Balaam to Balak build for me in this [place] seven altars and prepare for me in this [place] seven young bulls and seven rams.

30 fecit Balac ut Balaam dixerat inposuitque vitulos et arietes per singulas aras

And he did Balak just as he had said Balaam and he offered up a young bull and a ram on the altar.