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.”(A)

Balaam’s Fourth Message

15 Then he spoke his message:

“The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor,
    the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly,
16 the prophecy of one who hears the words(B) of God,
    who has knowledge from the Most High,(C)
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.(D)
A star will come out of Jacob;(E)
    a scepter will rise out of Israel.(F)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,(G)
    the skulls[a](H) of[b] all the people of Sheth.[c]
18 Edom(I) will be conquered;
    Seir,(J) his enemy, will be conquered,(K)
    but Israel(L) will grow strong.
19 A ruler will come out of Jacob(M)
    and destroy the survivors of the city.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
  2. Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
  3. Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters

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