Numbers Chapter 23

Balak sacriface and Balaam’s parable

23:1 AND Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
23:2 And Balak did as Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here had spoken ; and Balak and Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here offered on [every] altar a steer and a ram.
23:3 And Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go perhaps YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here will come to meet me and whatever he shows me I will tell you . And he went to a high place.
23:4 And Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here met Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on [every] altar a steer and a ram.
23:5 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here put a word in Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here‘s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and so you will speak.
23:6 And he returned to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the leaders of Moab מוֹאָב‎
Transliteration:mô’āḇ Pronunciation:mo-awb Moab = “of his father” Son of Lot and his oldest daughter click here also the land of Moab’s descendants.
23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moabמוֹאָב‎
Transliteration:mô’āḇ Pronunciation:mo-awb Moab = “of his father” Son of Lot and his oldest daughter click here also the land of Moab’s descendants has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here, and come, defy Israel.
23:8 How shall I curse, whom EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here has not cursed ? or how shall I defy, [whom] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has not defied ?
23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him lo, the people shall stay alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel ? Let me (my soul, or my life) die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
23:11 And Balak said to Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, see, you have blessed [them] altogether.
23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has put in my mouth ?
23:13 And Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from where you may see them you will see but the utmost part of them, and will not see them all and curse me them from there.
23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah (or the hill), and built seven altars, and offered a steer and a ram on [every] altar.
23:15 And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here] yonder.
23:16 And YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here met Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and say thus.
23:17 And when he came to him, observe, he stood by his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moabמוֹאָב‎
Transliteration:mô’āḇ Pronunciation:mo-awb Moab = “of his father” Son of Lot and his oldest daughter click here also the land of Moab’s descendants with him. And Balak said to him, What has YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here spoken ?
23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Get up, Balak, and hear ; listen to me, you son of Zippor
23:19 EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here [is] not a man, that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent has he said, and shall he not do [it]? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
23:20 Look, I have received [commandment] to bless and he has blessed ; and I cannot reverse it.
23:21 He hasn’t seen iniquity in Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here his Elohim אֱלֹהָיו
His God – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word is Elohim for more info on the word click here [is] with him, and the shout of a king [is] among them.
23:22 EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here brought them out of Egypt ; he has as it were the strength of the great aurochs.
23:23 Surely [there is] no enchantment against (or in) Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here, neither [is there] any divination against Israel according to this time it shall be said of Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. (later called Israel) for more info click here and of Israel, What has EL אֵל
‎Transliteration:ēl Pronunciation:ale — masculine noun — God, god-like one, mighty one occurs 245 times in 235 verses in the WLC Hebrew click here worked!
23:24 See, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the dead.
23:25 And Balak said to Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
23:26 But Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here answered and said to Balak, Didn’t I tell you , saying, All that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here speaks, that I must do ?
23:27 And Balak said to Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here, Please come,  I will bring you to another place ; perhaps it will please Elohim אֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here that you may curse them from there [for] me .
23:28 And Balak brought Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here to the top of Peor, that looked toward Jeshimon (or wilderness).
23:29 And Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven steers and seven rams.
23:30 And Balak did as Balaamבִּלְעָם
Transliteration bilʿām Pronunciation bil-awm’ Balaam = not (of the) people, i.e. foreigner; Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet; also a place in Palestine:— Balaam, Bileam For more info click here had said, and offered a steer and a ram on [each] altar.

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