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Numbers 23 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Prophecies of Balaam

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:2 - And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - Then the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:6 - So he returned to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - And he took up his oracle and said:

“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:8 - “How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how shall I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - For from the top of the rocks I see him,
And from the hills I behold him;
There! A people dwelling alone,
Not reckoning itself among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 - “Who can count the dust[fn] of Jacob,
Or number one-fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my end be like his!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed them bountifully!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:12 - So he answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”
Balaam’s Second Prophecy

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only the outer part of them, and shall not see them all; curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - And he said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet[fn] the LORD over there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - Then the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - So he came to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:18 - Then he took up his oracle and said:

“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, son of Zippor!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:19 - “God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:20 - Behold, I have received a command to bless;
He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:21 - “He has not observed iniquity in Jacob,
Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel.
The LORD his God is with him,
And the shout of a King is among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:22 - God brings them out of Egypt;
He has strength like a wild ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 - “For there is no sorcery against Jacob,
Nor any divination against Israel.
It now must be said of Jacob
And of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:24 - Look, a people rises like a lioness,
And lifts itself up like a lion;
It shall not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:26 - So Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”
Balaam’s Third Prophecy

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:28 - So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:30 - And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.
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NKJV Footnotes
Or dust cloud
Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Syriac reads call; Septuagint reads go and ask God.
Hebrew Jeshimon
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