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chapter 23
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And
Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves,
and the same number of rams.
2 And when he had done according to the word of Balaam,
they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.
3 And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt
offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever
he shall command, I will speak to thee.
4 And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And
Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on
everyone a calf and a ram.
5 And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said:
Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
6 Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt
offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:
7 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the
Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said
he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.
8 How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By
what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
9 I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall
consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be
reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number
of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end
be like to them.
11 And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou
dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.
12 He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but
what the Lord commandeth?
13 Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place
from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse
them from thence.
14 And when he had brought him to a high place, upon
the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a
calf and a ram,
15 He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering
while I go to meet him.
16 And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word
in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.
17 Returning he found him standing by his burnt
sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him:
What hath the Lord spoken?
18 But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac,
and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son
of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath
he spoken, and will he not fulfil?
20 I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able
to hinder.
21 There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image
god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory
of the king in him.
22 God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is
like to the rhinoceros.
23 There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in
Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath
wrought.
24 Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and
shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey,
and drink the blood of the slain.
25 And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless
him.
26 And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever
God should command me, that I would do?
27 And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to
another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from
thence.
28 And when he had brought him upon the top of mount
Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
29 Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and
prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
30 Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every
altar, a calf and a ram.
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