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| Numbers 23:1 | And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. | And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep. | And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams. |
| Numbers 23:2 | And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. | And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep. | And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar. |
| Numbers 23:3 | And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. | Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill. | 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. |
| Numbers 23:4 | And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram. | And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every 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. |
| Numbers 23:5 | And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. | And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say. | And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak. |
| Numbers 23:6 | And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. | So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab. | Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites: |
| Numbers 23:7 | And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. | And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with 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. |
| Numbers 23:8 | How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? | How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry? | How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not? |
| Numbers 23:9 | For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. | From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations. | 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. |
| Numbers 23:10 | Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! | Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his! | 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. |
| Numbers 23:11 | And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. | Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing. | And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them. |
| Numbers 23:12 | And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? | And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth? | He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth? |
| Numbers 23:13 | And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. | And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them 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. |
| Numbers 23:14 | And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. | So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every 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, |
| Numbers 23:15 | And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. | Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord. | He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him. |
| Numbers 23:16 | And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. | And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say. | 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. |
| Numbers 23:17 | And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? | So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said? | 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? |
| Numbers 23:18 | And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: | And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor: | But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor: |
| Numbers 23:19 | God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? | God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth? | 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 fulfil? |
| Numbers 23:20 | Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. | See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away. | I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder. |
| Numbers 23:21 | He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. | He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them. | 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. |
| Numbers 23:22 | God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. | It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox. | God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros. |
| Numbers 23:23 | Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! | No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done! | 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. |
| Numbers 23:24 | Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. | See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death. | 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. |
| Numbers 23:25 | And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. | Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing. | And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him. |
| Numbers 23:26 | But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do? | But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says? | And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do? |
| Numbers 23:27 | And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. | Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them 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. |
| Numbers 23:28 | And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. | So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land. | And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness, |
| Numbers 23:29 | And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. | And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me. | Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams. |
| Numbers 23:30 | And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. | And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar. | Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram. |
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