Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. m 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass; and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times ? not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour? 38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have Í now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak. g39 And Balaam went with Ba29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Tak, and they came unto Kirjath-huBecause thou hast mocked me; Izoth. would there were a sword in my 40 And Balak offered oxen and hand, for now would I kill thee. sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to 30 And the ass said unto Balaam, the princes that were with him. Am not I thine ass, upon which thouf 41 And it came to pass on the hast ridden ever since I was thine morrow, that Balak took Balaam, unto this day? was I ever wont to and brought him up into the high do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. places of Baal, that thence he v 31 Then the LORD opened the might see the utmost part of the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the an-people. gel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his AN hand; and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face. 32 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me: CHAP. XXIII. ND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken: and Balak and Balaam of fered on every altar a bullock and a ram. 3 And Balaam said unto Balak, 33 And the ass saw me, and turn-Stand by thy burnt-offering, and Í ed from me these three times: unless will go; peradventure the LORD she had turned from me, surely now will come to meet me: and whatalso I had slain thee, and saved her soever he sheweth me I will tell alive. thee. And he went to a high place. f 34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. 4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram. 5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. 35 And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak 6 And he returned unto him, and, unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So lo, he stood by his burut-sacrifice, Balaam went with the princes of Ba-re, and all the princes of Moab. lak. £36 ¶ And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which is in the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost coast. 37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou f7¶ And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob; and come, defy Israel. 8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?' r9 For from the top of the rocks Imandment to bless: and he hath see him, and from the hills I behold blessed; and I cannot reverse it. him: lo, the people shall dwell D21 He hath not beheld iniquity alone, and shall not be reckoned in Jacob, neither hath he seen peramong the nations. verseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. c 10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! f 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. 12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? 13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence. g14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. f 15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. 16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. 17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken? 18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; 22 God brought them out of Egypt: he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn. b 23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! r 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. 25 ¶ And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do ? f 27 ¶ And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. 28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. 29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. CHAP. XXIV. ND when Balaam saw that hearken unto me, thou son of Zip-Ait pleased the LORD to bless por: 19 God is not a man, that he Israel, he went not, as at other times, should lie; neither the son of man, to seek for enchantments, but he set that he should repent: hath he said, his face toward the wilderness. and shall he not do it? or hath het 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, spoken, and shall he not make it and he saw Israel abiding in his tents good? according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him. 20 Behold, I have received com 3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said; v4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: b5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! and thy tabernacles, O Israel! 6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side; as the trees of lign-aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedartrees beside the waters. 7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. 8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. b 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee. f 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 ho nour. 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: r17 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 dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. r 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! 12 And Balaam said unto Balak, 21 And ships shall come from the Spake I not also to thy messengers, coast of Chittim, and shall afflict which thou sentest unto me, say-Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and ing, he also shall perish for ever. 13 If Balak would give me his 25 And Balaam rose up, and house full of silver and gold, I can- went and returned to his place: and not go beyond the commandment | Balak also went his way. of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what g the LORD saith, that will I speak? | AN CHAP. XXV. ND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to com mit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. f2 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 Baal-peor; 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 an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. 14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. 15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. 16 And the LORD spake unto of Israel, Slay ye every one his Moses, saying, men that were joined unto Baal-w 17 Vex the Midianites, and smite peor. them: 6 And, behold, one of the chil- 18 For they vex you with their dren of Israel came, and brought wiles, wherewith they have beguilunto his brethren a Midianitish wo-ed you in the matter of Peor, and in man in the sight of Moses, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter the sight of all the congregation of of a prince of Midian, their sister, the children of Israel, who were which was slain in the day of the weeping before the door of the ta-plague for Peor's sake. bernacle 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. f CHAP. XXVI. AND it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses, and unto Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their father's house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. g 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab, by Jordan near Jericho, 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thou-saying, sand. 10 T And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. b 12 Wherefore say, Behold, 1 give unto him my covenant of peace: 13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of 4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt. f 5 ¶ Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites : 6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ƒ 7 These are the families of the CHAPTER XXVI. Reubenites and they that were numbered of them were lorty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. of Hezron, the family of the Hez- f 22 These are the families of Ju- 8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab, f 9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD: 10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that com- f 25 These are the families of Ispany died, what time the fire de-sachar, according to those that were voured two hundred and fifty men: numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred. and they became a sign. D11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not. f12 The sons of Simeon, after their families of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: 13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. f 14 These are the families of the Šimeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred. 24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 26 Of the sons of Zebulun, after their families of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. f 27 These are the families of the Zebulunites, according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred. 28 T The sons of Joseph, after their families, were Manasseh and Ephraim. 29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of f 15 ¶ The children of Gad, after Machir, the family of the Machirtheir families of Zephon, the fami-ites; and Machir begat Gilead: of ly of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the Gilead come the family of the Gilefamily of the Haggites: of Shuni, adites: the family of the Shunites: 30 These are the sons of Gilead: 16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oz- of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezernites of Eri, the family of the Erites:ites: of Helek, the family of the 17 Of Arod, the family of the Helekites: Arodites of Areli, the family of the Arelites. f 18 These are the families of the children of Gad, according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. f 19 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 31 And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: 32 And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 20 And the sons of Judah, after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites of Pha-f 34 These are the families of Marez, the family of the Pharezites: nasseh, and those that were numof Zerah, the family of the Zarbites. bered of them, fifty and two thou21 And the sons of Pharez were; sand and seven hundred. 199 |