41 The next morning Balak took Balaam up to Bamoth Baal, and from there he saw part of the people.

23:1 Balaam said, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."

² Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

³ Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps Yahuwah will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went off to a barren height.

⁴ Elohim met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."

⁵ Yahuwah put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."

⁶ So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the princes of Moab.

⁷ Then Balaam uttered his oracle: "Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. 'Come,' he said, 'curse Ya'acov for me; come, denounce Yisrael.'

⁸ How can I curse those whom Elohim has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom Yahuwah has not denounced?

⁹ From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Ya'acov or number the fourth part of Yisrael? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like theirs!"

¹¹ Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!"

¹² He answered, "Must I not speak what Yahuwah puts in my mouth?"

Balaam's Second Oracle

¹³ Then Balak said to him, "Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will see only a part but not all of them. And from there, curse them for me."

¹⁴ So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

¹⁵ Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there."

¹⁶ Yahuwah met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."

¹⁷ So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the princes of Moab. Balak asked him, "What did Yahuwah say?"

¹⁸ Then he uttered his oracle: "Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.

¹⁹ Elohim is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

²⁰ I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.

²¹ "No misfortune is seen in Ya'acov, no misery observed in Yisrael. Yahuwah their Elohim is with them; the shout of the King is among them.

²² Elohim brought them out of Mitzrayim; they have the strength of a wild ox.

²³ There is no sorcery against Ya'acov, no divination against Yisrael. It will now be said of Ya'acov and of Yisrael, 'See what Elohim has done!'

²⁴ The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till he devours his prey and drinks the blood of his victims."

²⁵ Then Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!"

²⁶ Balaam answered, "Did I not tell you I must do whatever Yahuwah says?"

²⁷ Then Balak said to Balaam, "Come, let me take you to another place. Perhaps it will please Elohim to let you curse them for me from there."

²⁸ And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

²⁹ Balaam said, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."

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

Balaam's Third Oracle

24:1 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahuwah to bless Yisrael, he did not resort to sorcery as at other times, but turned his face toward the desert.

² When Balaam looked out and saw Yisrael encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of Elohim came upon him

³ and he uttered his oracle: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of one whose eye sees clearly,

⁴ the oracle of one who hears the words of Elohim, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:

⁵ "How beautiful are your tents, O Ya'acov, your dwelling places, O Yisrael!

⁶ "Like valleys they spread out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by Yahuwah, like cedars beside the waters.

⁷ Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water. "Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.

⁸ "Elohim brought them out of Mitzrayim; they have the strength of a wild ox. They devour hostile nations and break their bones in pieces; with their arrows they pierce them.

⁹ Like a lion they crouch and lie down, like a lioness-- who dares to rouse them? "May those who bless you be blessed and those who curse you be cursed!"

¹⁰ Then Balak's anger burned against Balaam. He struck his hands together and said to him, "I summoned you to curse my enemies, but you have blessed them these three times.

¹¹ Now leave at once and go home! I said I would reward you handsomely, but Yahuwah has kept you from being rewarded."

¹² Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell the messengers you sent me,

¹³ 'Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of Yahuwah-- and I must say only what Yahuwah says'?

¹⁴ Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you of what this people will do to your people in days to come."

Balaam's Fourth Oracle

15 Then he uttered his oracle: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of one whose eye sees clearly,

¹⁶ the oracle of one who hears the words of Elohim, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:

¹⁷ "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Ya'acov; a scepter will rise out of Yisrael. He will crush the foreheads of Moab, the skulls of all the sons of Sheth.

¹⁸ Edom will be conquered; Seir, his enemy, will be conquered, but Yisrael will grow strong.

¹⁹ A ruler will come out of Ya'acov and destroy the survivors of the city."

²⁰ Then Balaam saw Amalek and uttered his oracle: "Amalek was first among the nations, but he will come to ruin at last."

²¹ Then he saw the Kenites and uttered his oracle: "Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;

²² yet you Kenites will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive."

²³ Then he uttered his oracle: "Ah, who can live when Elohim does this?

²⁴ Ships will come from the shores of Kittim; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will come to ruin."

²⁵ Then Balaam got up and returned home and Balak went his own way.

Worshipping the Baal of Peor

25:1 While Yisrael was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

² who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods.

³ So Yisrael joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And Yahuwah's anger burned against them.

⁴ Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before Yahuwah, so that Yahuwah's fierce anger may turn away from Yisrael."

⁵ So Mosheh said to Yisrael's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor."

⁶ Then a Yisraelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Mosheh and the whole assembly of Yisrael while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Appointment.

⁷ When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand

⁸ and followed the Yisraelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them-- through the Yisraelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against the sons of Yisrael was stopped;

⁹ but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

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