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            <div class="label">24</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn&#8217;t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Balaam the son of Beor says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">the man whose eyes are open says;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">he says, who hears the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">who sees the vision of the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">falling down, and having his eyes open:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How goodly are your tents, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">and your dwellings, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As valleys they are spread out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">as gardens by the riverside,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">as aloes which Yahweh has planted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">as cedar trees beside the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Water shall flow from his buckets.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">His seed shall be in many waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">His king shall be higher than Agag.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">His kingdom shall be exalted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">God brings him out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">He shall consume the nations his adversaries,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">shall break their bones in pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">and pierce them with his arrows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He couched, he lay down as a lion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">as a lioness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">who shall rouse him up?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">Everyone who blesses you is blessed.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">Everyone who curses you is cursed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Balak&#8217;s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8216;If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can&#8217;t go beyond Yahweh&#8217;s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says&#8217;? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Balaam the son of Beor says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">the man whose eyes are open says;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">he says, who hears the words of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">knows the knowledge of the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">and who sees the vision of the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">falling down, and having his eyes open:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I see him, but not now.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">I see him, but not near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">A star will come out of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">A scepter will rise out of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">and shall strike through the corners of Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">and crush all the sons of Sheth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Edom shall be a possession.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">while Israel does valiantly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">and shall destroy the remnant from the city.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">&#8220;Amalek was the first of the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">but his latter end shall come to destruction.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Your dwelling place is strong.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">Your nest is set in the rock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">until Asshur carries you away captive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He took up his parable, and said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Alas, who shall live when God does this?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">He also shall come to destruction.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.</span></span></div>
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When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness. Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him. He took up his parable, and said,
“Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eyes are open says;
he says, who hears the words of God,
who sees the vision of the Almighty,
falling down, and having his eyes open:
How goodly are your tents, Jacob,
and your dwellings, Israel!
As valleys they are spread out,
as gardens by the riverside,
as aloes which Yahweh has planted,
as cedar trees beside the waters.
Water shall flow from his buckets.
His seed shall be in many waters.
His king shall be higher than Agag.
His kingdom shall be exalted.
God brings him out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
He shall consume the nations his adversaries,
shall break their bones in pieces,
and pierce them with his arrows.
He couched, he lay down as a lion,
as a lioness;
who shall rouse him up?
Everyone who blesses you is blessed.
Everyone who curses you is cursed.”
Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times. Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”
Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’? Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
He took up his parable, and said,
“Balaam the son of Beor says,
the man whose eyes are open says;
he says, who hears the words of God,
knows the knowledge of the Most High,
and who sees the vision of the Almighty,
falling down, and having his eyes open:
I see him, but not now.
I see him, but not near.
A star will come out of Jacob.
A scepter will rise out of Israel,
and shall strike through the corners of Moab,
and crush all the sons of Sheth.
Edom shall be a possession.
Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession,
while Israel does valiantly.
Out of Jacob shall one have dominion,
and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,
“Amalek was the first of the nations,
but his latter end shall come to destruction.”
He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,
“Your dwelling place is strong.
Your nest is set in the rock.
Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted,
until Asshur carries you away captive.”
He took up his parable, and said,
“Alas, who shall live when God does this?
But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim.
They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber.
He also shall come to destruction.”
Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

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