Verse 10
Numbers 23:10
Literal Standard Version
10
Who has counted the dust of Jacob, || And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, || And let my last end be like his!”
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ֤י מָנָה֙ עֲפַ֣ר יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּ/מִסְפָּ֖ר אֶת רֹ֣בַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל תָּמֹ֤ת נַפְשִׁ/י֙ מ֣וֹת יְשָׁרִ֔ים וּ/תְהִ֥י אַחֲרִיתִ֖/י כָּמֹֽ/הוּ
English Translation
Who has counted the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like theirs.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
And Balaam says to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this place, and prepare seven bullocks and s...
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And Balak does as Balaam has spoken, and Balak—Balaam also—offers a bullock and a ram on the altar,
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and Balaam says to Balak, “Station yourself by your burnt-offering and I go on, it may be YHWH comes...
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And God (Elohim) comes to Balaam, and he says to Him, “I have arranged the seven altars, and I offer...
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and YHWH puts a word in the mouth of Balaam and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you speak.”
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And he returns to him, and behold, he is standing by his burnt-offering, he and all the princes of M...
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And he takes up his allegory and says: “Balak king of Moab leads me from Aram; From mountains of the...
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How do I pierce when God (Elohim) has not pierced? And how am I indignant when YHWH has not been ind...
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For from the top of rocks I see him, || And from heights I behold him; Behold a people! He dwells al...
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Who has counted the dust of Jacob, || And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death o...
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And Balak says to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I have taken you to pierce my enemies, and beho...
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and he answers and says, “That which YHWH puts in my mouth—do I not take heed to speak it?”
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And Balak says to him, “Come! Come to another place with me, from where you see it—you see only its...
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and he takes him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and builds seven altars, and offers a...
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And he says to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt-offering, and I meet Him there”;
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and YHWH comes to Balaam, and sets a word in his mouth, and says, “Return to Balak, and thus you spe...
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And he comes to him, and behold, he is standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab are w...
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And he takes up his allegory and says: “Rise, Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, son of Zippor!
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God (Elohim) is not a man—and lies, || And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do...
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Behold, I have received only to bless; Indeed, He blesses, and I cannot reverse it.
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He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, || Nor has He seen perverseness in Israel; His God (Elohim) YHW...
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God (Elohim) is bringing them out from Egypt, || As the swiftness of a wild ox for him;
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For no enchantment is against Jacob, || Nor divination against Israel; At the time it is said of Jac...
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Behold, the people rises as a lioness, || And he lifts himself up as a lion; He does not lie down un...
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And Balak says to Balaam, “Neither pierce it at all, nor bless it at all”;
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and Balaam answers and says to Balak, “Have I not spoken to you, saying, All that YHWH speaks—I do i...
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And Balak says to Balaam, “Please come, I take you to another place; it may be it is right in the ey...
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And Balak takes Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,
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and Balaam says to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this place, and prepare seven bullocks and s...
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and Balak does as Balaam said, and he offers a bullock and a ram on an altar.
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