Numbers Chapter 23 - Catholic Public Domain Version
- 1
- And Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams."
- 2
- And when he had acted according to the words of Balaam, they placed a calf and a ram together on each altar.
- 3
- And Balaam said to Balak: "Stand for a little while next to your holocaust, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet with me. And whatever he will command, I shall speak to you."
- 4
- And after he had quickly departed, God met with him. And Balaam, speaking to him, said: "I have set up seven altars, and I have placed a calf and a ram on each."
- 5
- Then the Lord placed the word in his mouth, and he said: "Return to Balak, and you shall say this."
NUM:22:20
DEU:18:18
JER:1:9
NUM:23:12 - 6
- Returning, he found Balak standing next to his holocaust, with all the leaders of the Moabites.
- 7
- And taking up his parable, he said: "Balak, king of the Moabites, has led me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. 'Come forth,' he said, 'and curse Jacob. Hurry and condemn Israel.'NUM:22:6
NUM:22:5
DEU:23:4
NUM:24:3 - 8
- How shall I curse him, whom God has not cursed? For what reason would I condemn him, whom the Lord does not condemn?NUM:22:12
PRO:26:2 - 9
- I will look upon him from the tops of the stones, and I will consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and they shall not be counted among the nations.DEU:32:8
DEU:33:28 - 10
- Who can number the dust that is Jacob, and who can know the number of the stock of Israel? May my soul die a just death, and may my end be like theirs."GEN:13:16
GEN:28:14
ISA:57:1
PS:37:37 - 11
- And Balak said to Balaam: "What is this that you are doing? I called for you, in order to curse my enemies, and to the contrary, you bless them."NEH:13:2
DEU:23:5 - 12
- He answered him, "How can I say anything other than what the Lord orders?"NUM:22:20
NUM:23:5 - 13
- Therefore, Balak said: "Come with me to another place, from where you may see a portion of Israel, though you cannot see them all. Curse them from there."NUM:22:41
- 14
- And when he had led him to a lofty place, on the top of mount Pisgah, Balaam built seven altars, and placing upon each a calf and a ram,
- 15
- he said to Balak, "Stand here next to your holocaust, while I continue on to meet him."
- 16
- And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said, "Return to Balak, and you shall say this to him."NUM:22:20
- 17
- Returning, he found him standing next to his holocaust, and the leaders of the Moabites were with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the Lord spoken?"
- 18
- But, taking up his parable, he said: "Stand, Balak, and pay attention. Listen, you son of Zippor.NUM:24:3
- 19
- God is not like a man, so that he would lie, nor is he like a son of man, so that he would be changed. Therefore, having spoken, will he not act? Has he ever spoken, and not fulfilled?NUM:11:23
NUM:14:35
ISA:40:8
ISA:55:11
JOB:9:32
HOS:11:9
HAB:2:3
MAL:3:6
ROM:11:29
HEB:7:21
ISA:31:2
JER:4:28 - 20
- I was led here to bless, and I have no strength to hinder the blessing.GEN:27:33
GEN:12:2
GEN:22:17
NUM:22:12
ISA:43:12 - 21
- There is no idol in Jacob; neither is there a false image to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the resound of royal victory is in him.NUM:14:18
NUM:14:34
PS:32:2
PS:32:5
DEU:9:24
DEU:32:5
JER:50:20
EXO:3:12
EXO:29:45
NUM:23:23
DEU:31:23
DEU:33:5
PS:89:15
PS:47:6 - 22
- God has led him away from Egypt; his strength is like that of the rhinoceros.NUM:24:8
DEU:33:17
NUM:24:8-9
MAT:2:15 - 23
- There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor any divination in Israel. In their times, it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God has wrought.NUM:22:7
NUM:23:21
NUM:24:1
JOS:13:22
PS:31:19
PS:44:1
NUM:14:15-18
EZE:21:21 - 24
- Behold, the people will rise up like a lioness, and lie down like a lion. But they will not lie down until they devour the prey and drink the blood of the slain."GEN:49:9
NAH:2:11
NUM:24:8
NUM:24:9 - 25
- And Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse him, nor bless him."
- 26
- And he said, "Have I not told you that whatever God would command of me, I would do?"NUM:22:20
NUM:22:38
NUM:22:18 - 27
- And Balak said to him: "Come and I will lead you to another place. If perhaps it may please God, then you may curse them from there."
- 28
- And when he had led him on to the top of mount Peor, which looks out toward the wilderness,NUM:21:20
NUM:24:1 - 29
- Balaam said to him, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams."
- 30
- Balak did as Balaam had said, and he placed on each altar a calf and a ram.
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