Balak, בָּלָק — 10/24/26
Torah: Numbers 23:13 - 23:26 (14)
Gospel: ? (?)
Passages
- Torah: Numbers 23:13 - 23:26
- Gospel: ?
Torah — Numbers 23:13 - 23:26
LEB translation
23:13 Then Balak said, “Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
23:14 So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
23:15 Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there.”
23:16 Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, “Return to Balak, and you must speak thus.”
23:17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
23:18 Then he uttered his oracle, and said,
“Stand up, Balak, and hear;
listen to me, son of Zippor!
23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of humankind,
that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
23:20 Behold, I have received a command to bless;
when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return.
23:21 He has no regard for evil in Jacob,
and he does not see trouble in Israel;
Yahweh his God is with him,
and a shout of a king is among them.
23:22 God, who brings them out from Egypt,
is like the strength of a wild ox for them.
23:23 Because there is no sorcery against Jacob,
and there is no divination against Israel.
Now it will be said to Jacob and Israel,
what God has done!
23:24 Look! the people will rise like the lion;
he raises himself and will not lie down
until he eats the prey
and drinks the blood of the slain.”
23:25 Then Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”
23:26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do’?”