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31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his 14 And the princes of Moab rose up,sword drawn in his hand and he and they went unto Balak, and said, bowed down his head, and fell flat on Balaam refuseth to come with us.

34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I 18 And Balaam answered and said un-knew not that thou stoodest in the to the servants of Balak, If Balak would way against me. now therefore, if it give me his house full of silver and gold, displease thee, I will get me back I cannot go beyond the word of the again. LORD my God, to do less or more.

40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence be might see the utmost part of the people.

CHAP. XXIII.

Its prophecy

and the princes of Moab with in,
And Baiak said unto him, What hath
the LORD spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and"
, and
said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken
unto me, thou son of Zippor

19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, anu shall AND ND Balaam said unto Balak, Build he not do it? or bath he spoken, and me here seven altars, and pre-shali be not make it good? pare ne here seven oxen and seven

rams.

2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a rain.

3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever be sheweth me 1 will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

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.

6 And he returned unto him; and lo, he stood by his burnt-sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7 And he took up his parable, and. said, Balak the king of Moab hath rought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse ne Jacob, and come, defy Israel. 6 How shail I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shail I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

9 For from the top of the rocks see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Who can count the dus. 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 bis!

20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God s with him, and the shout of a king s among them.

22 God brought them out of Egypt: he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

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!

24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: be shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

25 And Balak said unto.Balaam, Nerther 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?

27 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee junto another place: peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

29 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.

11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took 30 And Balak did as Balaam had thee to curse mine enemies, and be-said, and offered a bullock and a rain hold, thou hast blessed them altogether. on every altar. 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 ail; and curse me them from thence.

14 And he brought him into the field of Zophum, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

15 And be said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-ottering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

16 And the LORD met Balaamn, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

17 And when he came to him, bebeid, he stood by his burnt-offering,

CHAP. XXIV.

AND when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.

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;

4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the sision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

5 low goodly are thy tents, O Ja cob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! 6 As the valleys are they spread

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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 an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through

with his arrows.

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.

10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaani, 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 honour.

12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

Zemri and Cozbi slain. 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!

24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall athict As shur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way. CHAP. XXV.

AND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

2 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 of Israel, Slay ye every one his inel that were joined unto Baal-peor.

6 And behold, one of the children 13 If Balak would give me his house of Israel came, and brought unto his full of silver and gold, I cannot go be-brethren a Midianitish woman, in the yond the commandinent of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?

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 bis parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said;

16 Ife hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowJedge of the Most High, which saw the Vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

17 I shall see him, but not now; 1 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.

sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle 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

9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. 10 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 Is rael, (while he was zealous for my sake among them,) that I consumed not the

18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israe! 'shall do vali-children of Israel in my jealousy. antly.

19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

13 And he shall have it, and bis seed after him, even the covenant of an 20 And when he looked on Ama-everlasting priesthood; because he was Jek, he took up his parable, and said, zealous for his God, and made an atoneAinalek was the first of the nations;ment for the children of Israel. 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 guttest thy nest in a rock.

22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall

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

CHAP. XVI. daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. 16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Ves the Midianites, and smite themi:

1s For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguilet you in the matter of Peor, and in the nafter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slam in the day of the plague, for

16 Of Ozni. the family of the Oz nites: of Eri, the family of the Erites. 17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: bi Areli, the family of the Aretites.

18 These are the families of the children of Gad, according to those that were numbered of them, foly thousand and five hundred.

19 The sons of Judah were Er, and Onan and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Phasezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites:

2: And the sons of Pharez were; 2 Take the sum of all the congre- of lezron, the family of the Hezrongation of the children of Israel, fromites: of Hamul, the family of the twenty years old and upward, through- Hamulites. out their father's house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of 25 These are the families of Issachar, whom cometh the family of the Ha- according to those that were numbernochites of Phallu, the family of theed of thein, threescore and four thou Phalluites: sand and three hundred.

9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that 29 The sons of Joseph after their famDathan and Abiram, which were fa-ilies were Manasseh and Ephraim. mous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Kotab, when they strove against the LORD:"

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37 These are the families of the sons. of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of 38 The sons of Benjamin after their the Gershonites: of Kohath, the fafamilies of Bela, the family of the Be-mily of the Kohathites: of Meraci the family of the Merarites.

47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were 65 For the LORD had said of them numbered of them; who were fifty They shall surely die in the wilder and three thousand and four hundred.ness. And there was not let a inan of 45 of the sons of Naphtali after them, save Caleo the son of Jephuntheir families. of Jahzee, the family neh, and Joshua the son of Nun. of the Jinzeentes. of Gumi, the fa mily of the Gunites:

THEN came the daughters of Ze

lophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, and Noah, and Hoglab, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes, and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.

4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD