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Numbers 23 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:2 - And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:6 - And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - And he took up his parable, and said,
From Aram hath Balak brought me,
The king of Moab from the mountains of the East:
Come, curse me Jacob,
And come, defy Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:8 -
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?
And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 -
For from the top of the rocks I see him,
And from the hills I behold him:
Lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone,
And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 -
Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my last end be like his!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:12 - And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:18 - And he took up his parable, and said,
Rise up, Balak, and hear;
Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:19 -
God is not a man, that he should lie,
Neither the son of man, that he should repent:
Hath he said, and will he not do it?
Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:20 -
Behold, I have received commandment to bless:
And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 -
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob;
Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel:
Jehovah his God is with him,
And the shout of a king is among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:22 -
God bringeth them forth out of Egypt;
He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 -
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
Neither is there any divination with Israel:
Now shalt it be said of Jacob and of Israel,
What hath God wrought!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 -
Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness,
And as a lion doth he lift himself up:
He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey,
And drink the blood of the slain.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:26 - But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:28 - And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:30 - And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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