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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven oxen and seven rams.&#8221; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:29  </span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:14, 30  </span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:15  </span></span><span class="content"> Perhaps the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.&#8221; And he went to a high place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God met Balaam, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:16  </span></span><span class="content"> and he said to Him, &#8220;I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bull and a ram.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put a word in the mouth of Balaam </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Dt 18:18; Jer 1:9  </span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;Return to Balak, and thus you will speak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Balaam uttered his oracle, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:18  </span></span><span class="content"> saying:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Balak has brought me from Aram, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 22:5&#8211;6  </span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">the king of Moab from the mountains of the east,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">saying, &#8216;Come, curse Jacob for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.23.7"><span class="content">and come, defy Israel!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">How will I curse</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">whom God has not cursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">Or how will I defy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.23.8"><span class="content">whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not defied?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For from the top of the rocks I see him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">and from the hills I behold him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">there, the people will dwell alone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.23.9"><span class="content">and will not be counted among the nations. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ex 33:16; Dt 32:8  </span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who can count the dust of Jacob </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ge 13:16  </span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">and the number of one-fourth of Israel?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">Let me die the death of the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.23.10"><span class="content">and let my last end be like his!&#8221; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ps 37:37  </span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 22:11; 24:10  </span></span><span class="content"> and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;Must I not take heed to speak what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> puts in my mouth?&#8221; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 22:38  </span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Second Prophecy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And Balak said to him, &#8220;Please come with me to another place from where you may see them. You will see part of them, but will not see them all. Curse them for me from there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:1&#8211;2  </span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He said to Balak, &#8220;Stand here by your burnt offerings while I meet the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> over there.&#8221; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:3  </span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, &#8220;Go again to Balak, and thus you will speak.&#8221; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 23:5  </span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he came to him, behold, he was standing beside his burnt offerings with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, &#8220;What has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoken?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And he took up his parable and said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise up, Balak, and hear!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.23.18"><span class="content">Listen to me, you son of Zippor!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">God is not a man, that He should lie,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">nor a son of man, that He should repent. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    1Sa 15:29; Mal 3:6; Jas 1:17  </span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Has He spoken, and will He not do it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.23.19"><span class="content">Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Behold, I have received a commandment to bless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.23.20"><span class="content">and He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ge 22:17; Nu 22:12  </span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">nor has He seen perverseness in Israel. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Jer 50:20  </span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God is with him, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ex 29:45&#8211;46  </span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.23.21"><span class="content">and the shout of a king is among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">God, who brings them out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.23.22"><span class="content">has strength like a wild ox. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 24:8; Dt 33:17; Job 39:9&#8211;11  </span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">nor is there any divination against Israel. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 24:1  </span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">For this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.23.23"><span class="content">&#8216;See what God has done!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Behold, a people rises up as a lioness, and lifts himself up as a lion; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ge 49:9  </span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">it shall not lie down until it eats the prey </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Ge 49:27  </span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.23.24"><span class="content">and drinks the blood of the slain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Balaam answered Balak, &#8220;Did I not tell you, saying, &#8216;All that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> speaks, I must do&#8217;?&#8221; </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 22:18  </span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Balaam&#8217;s Third Prophecy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And Balak said to Balaam, &#8220;Please come. I will bring you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks toward Jeshimon. </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    Nu 21:20  </span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.</span></span></div>
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And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven oxen and seven rams.” Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a high place.
God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bull and a ram.”
The LORD put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you will speak.”
And he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab. Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying:

“Balak has brought me from Aram,
the king of Moab from the mountains of the east,
saying, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
and come, defy Israel!’
How will I curse
whom God has not cursed?
Or how will I defy
whom the LORD has not defied?
For from the top of the rocks I see him,
and from the hills I behold him;
there, the people will dwell alone
and will not be counted among the nations.
Who can count the dust of Jacob
and the number of one-fourth of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
and let my last end be like his!”

And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.”
He answered, “Must I not take heed to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?”

And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them. You will see part of them, but will not see them all. Curse them for me from there.” He brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offerings while I meet the LORD over there.”
The LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go again to Balak, and thus you will speak.”
When he came to him, behold, he was standing beside his burnt offerings with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”
And he took up his parable and said:

“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor!
God is not a man, that He should lie,
nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He spoken, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
Behold, I have received a commandment to bless,
and He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

“He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
nor has He seen perverseness in Israel.
The LORD his God is with him,
and the shout of a king is among them.
God, who brings them out of Egypt,
has strength like a wild ox.
Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
nor is there any divination against Israel.
For this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel,
‘See what God has done!’
Behold, a people rises up as a lioness, and lifts himself up as a lion;
it shall not lie down until it eats the prey
and drinks the blood of the slain.”

Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, I must do’?”

And Balak said to Balaam, “Please come. I will bring you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks toward Jeshimon.
Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.” Balak did as Balaam said and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

শুনুন Numbers 23