Numbers 23

1Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Ex 27:1 · Num 23:29 · Num 29:32 · 1Sam 15:22 · 2Ki 18:22 · +10 more

2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.Cross-references: Num 23:14 · Num 23:30

3Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.Cross-references: Gen 8:20 · Gen 22:2 · Gen 22:7 · Gen 22:13 · Ex 18:12 · Lev 1:1 · +4 more

4God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”Cross-references: Num 22:9 · Num 22:20 · Num 23:1 · Num 23:16 · Isa 58:3 · Matt 20:12 · +4 more

5Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”Cross-references: Num 22:20 · Num 22:35 · Num 23:16 · Deut 18:18 · Prov 16:1 · Prov 16:9 · +5 more

6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · Gen 28:2 · Gen 28:7 · Num 22:5 · Num 22:11 · Num 22:17 · +23 more

8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?Cross-references: Num 22:12 · Num 23:20 · Num 23:23 · Isa 44:25 · Isa 47:12

9For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Ex 33:16 · Deut 32:8 · Deut 33:28 · Ezra 9:2 · Esth 3:8 · +7 more

10Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”Cross-references: Gen 13:16 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 28:14 · Num 2:9 · Num 2:16 · Num 2:24 · +13 more

11Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”Cross-references: Num 22:11 · Num 22:17 · Num 23:7 · Num 24:10 · Neh 13:2 · Ps 109:17

12He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”Cross-references: Num 22:20 · Num 22:38 · Num 23:20 · Num 23:26 · Num 24:13 · Prov 26:25 · +2 more

13Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”Cross-references: Num 22:41 · Josh 24:9 · 1Ki 20:23 · 1Ki 20:28 · Ps 109:17 · Mic 6:5 · +1 more

14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.Cross-references: Num 21:20 · Num 23:1 · Num 23:29 · Deut 3:27 · Deut 4:49 · Deut 34:1 · +3 more

15He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”Cross-references: Num 22:8 · Num 23:3

16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”Cross-references: Num 22:35 · Num 23:5 · Num 24:1

17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”Cross-references: Num 23:26 · 1Sam 3:17 · Jer 37:17

18He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.Cross-references: Judg 3:20

19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?Cross-references: 1Sam 15:29 · 1Chr 17:17 · Ps 89:35 · Hos 11:9 · Mic 7:20 · Hab 2:3 · +6 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

20Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 22:17 · Num 22:12 · Num 22:18 · Num 22:38 · Isa 43:13 · +3 more

21He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 29:45 · Ex 33:14 · Ex 34:9 · Deut 33:5 · Judg 6:13 · +29 more

22God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ex 14:18 · Ex 20:2 · Num 22:5 · Num 24:8 · Deut 33:17 · +4 more

23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Num 22:6 · Num 24:1 · Josh 13:22 · Ps 31:19 · Ps 44:1 · +22 more

24Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Gen 49:27 · Num 24:8 · Num 24:17 · Deut 33:20 · Ps 17:12 · +10 more

25Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”Cross-references: Ps 2:1

26But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do’?”Cross-references: Num 22:18 · Num 22:38 · Num 23:12 · Num 24:12 · 1Ki 22:14 · 2Chr 18:13 · +2 more

27Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”Cross-references: Num 23:13 · Num 23:19 · Job 23:13 · Prov 19:21 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 14:27 · +3 more

28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.Cross-references: Num 21:20 · Ps 106:28

29Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”Cross-references: Num 23:1

30Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.