Verse 24
Numbers 23:24
World English Bible, British Edition
24
Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.
As a lion he lifts himself up.
He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,
and drinks the blood of the slain.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֶן עָם֙ כְּ/לָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְ/כַ/אֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א לֹ֤א יִשְׁכַּב֙ עַד יֹ֣אכַל טֶ֔רֶף וְ/דַם חֲלָלִ֖ים יִשְׁתֶּֽה
English Translation
Behold, a people rises like a lion and like a lioness, it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has eaten the prey, and the blood of the slain will drink.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here
seven bulls and seven rams f...
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2
Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on
every altar a bull and a ram.
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3
Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps
the LORD will come to me...
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4
God (Elohim) met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars,
and I have offered u...
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5
The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak,
and thus you shall speak.”
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6
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering,
he, and all the princes of Mo...
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7
He took up his parable, and said,
“From Aram has Balak brought me,
the king of Moab from the mountai...
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8
How shall I curse whom God (Elohim) has not cursed?
How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
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9
For from the top of the rocks I see him.
From the hills I see him.
Behold, it is a people that dwell...
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10
Who can count the dust of Jacob,
or count the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the rig...
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11
Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you
to curse my enemies, and behold, you hav...
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12
He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which
the LORD puts in my mouth?”
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13
Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where
you may see them. You shall see just...
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14
He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,
and built seven altars, and offered up a...
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15
He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet
God (Elohim) over there.”
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16
The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,
“Return to Balak, and say this.”
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17
He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering,
and the princes of Moab with him....
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18
He took up his parable, and said,
“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
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19
God (Elohim) is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a son of man, that he should repent.
Has he said,...
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20
Behold, I have received a command to bless.
He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
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21
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
The LORD his God (Elo...
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22
God (Elohim) brings them out of Egypt.
He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
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23
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
Neither is there any divination with Israel.
Now it shall...
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24
Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.
As a lion he lifts himself up.
He shall not lie down until h...
25
Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless
them at all.”
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26
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All
that the LORD speaks, that I must do?’”
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27
Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another
place; perhaps it will please God (Elohi...
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28
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the
desert.
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29
Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare
seven bulls and seven rams for me...
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30
Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram
on every altar.
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