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Numbers 24:10-25:9
New International Version
Numbers 24:10-25:9
New International Version
10 Then Balak’s anger burned(A) against Balaam. He struck his hands together(B) and said to him, “I summoned you to curse my enemies,(C) but you have blessed them(D) these three times.(E) 11 Now leave at once and go home!(F) I said I would reward you handsomely,(G) but the Lord has kept you from being rewarded.”
12 Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell the messengers you sent me,(H) 13 ‘Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the Lord(I)—and I must say only what the Lord says’?(J) 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.”(K)
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(L) of God,
who has knowledge from the Most High,(M)
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.(N)
A star will come out of Jacob;(O)
a scepter will rise out of Israel.(P)
He will crush the foreheads of Moab,(Q)
the skulls[a](R) of[b] all the people of Sheth.[c]
18 Edom(S) will be conquered;
Seir,(T) his enemy, will be conquered,(U)
but Israel(V) will grow strong.
19 A ruler will come out of Jacob(W)
and destroy the survivors of the city.”
Balaam’s Fifth Message
20 Then Balaam saw Amalek(X) and spoke his message:
“Amalek was first among the nations,
but their end will be utter destruction.”(Y)
Balaam’s Sixth Message
21 Then he saw the Kenites(Z) and spoke his message:
“Your dwelling place is secure,(AA)
your nest is set in a rock;
22 yet you Kenites will be destroyed
when Ashur(AB) takes you captive.”
Balaam’s Seventh Message
23 Then he spoke his message:
“Alas! Who can live when God does this?[d]
24 Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus;(AC)
they will subdue Ashur(AD) and Eber,(AE)
but they too will come to ruin.(AF)”
25 Then Balaam(AG) got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.
Moab Seduces Israel
25 While Israel was staying in Shittim,(AH) the men began to indulge in sexual immorality(AI) with Moabite(AJ) women,(AK) 2 who invited them to the sacrifices(AL) to their gods.(AM) The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods. 3 So Israel yoked themselves to(AN) the Baal of Peor.(AO) And the Lord’s anger burned against them.
4 The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders(AP) of these people, kill them and expose(AQ) them in broad daylight before the Lord,(AR) so that the Lord’s fierce anger(AS) may turn away from Israel.”
5 So Moses said to Israel’s judges, “Each of you must put to death(AT) those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.”(AU)
6 Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite(AV) woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping(AW) at the entrance to the tent of meeting. 7 When Phinehas(AX) son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear(AY) in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the woman’s stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;(AZ) 9 but those who died in the plague(BA) numbered 24,000.(BB)
Footnotes
- Numbers 24:17 Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Jer. 48:45); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
- Numbers 24:17 Or possibly Moab, / batter
- Numbers 24:17 Or all the noisy boasters
- Numbers 24:23 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew The people from the islands will gather from the north.
Numbers 24:10-25:9
King James Version
Numbers 24:10-25:9
King James Version
10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.
12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?
14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
25 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
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