1 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. Compare verse
2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. Compare verse
3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to an high place. Compare verse
4 And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. Compare verse
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. Compare verse1 commentary
6 And he returned to him, and, see, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. Compare verse
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. Compare verse
8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied? Compare verse
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: see, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Compare verse
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! Compare verse1 commentary
11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether. Compare verse
12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth? Compare verse
13 And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from from where you may see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there. Compare verse
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. Compare verse
15 And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. Compare verse
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say thus. Compare verse
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has the LORD spoken? Compare verse
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, you son of Zippor: Compare verse
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Compare verse
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it. Compare verse
21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. Compare verse
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn. Compare verse
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 has God worked! Compare verse
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. Compare verse
25 And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. Compare verse
26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do? Compare verse
27 And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there. Compare verse
28 And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward Jeshimon. Compare verse
29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. Compare verse
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. Compare verse