Numbers 23

1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

and to say Balaam to(wards) Balak to build to/for me in/on/with this seven altar and to establish: prepare to/for me in/on/with this seven bullock and seven ram

2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

and to make: do Balak like/as as which to speak: speak Balaam and to ascend: offer up Balak and Balaam bullock and ram in/on/with altar

3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

and to say Balaam to/for Balak to stand upon burnt offering your and to go: went perhaps to meet LORD to/for to encounter: meet me and word: thing what? to see: see me and to tell to/for you and to go: went bareness

4 God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

and to meet God to(wards) Balaam and to say to(wards) him [obj] seven [the] altar to arrange and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar

5 The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

and to set: put LORD word in/on/with lip Balaam and to say to return: return to(wards) Balak and thus to speak: speak

6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

and to return: return to(wards) him and behold to stand upon burnt offering his he/she/it and all ruler Moab

7 He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

and to lift: loud proverb his and to say from (Paddan)-aram to lead me Balak king Moab from mountain front: east to go: come! [emph?] to curse [emph?] to/for me Jacob and to go: come! [emph?] be indignant [emph?] Israel

8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

what? to curse not to curse him God and what? be indignant not be indignant LORD

9 For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed amongst the nations.

for from head: top rock to see: see him and from hill to see him look! people to/for isolation to dwell and in/on/with nation not to devise: count

10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

who? to count dust Jacob and number [obj] fourth Israel to die soul: myself my death upright and to be end my like him

11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam what? to make: do to/for me to/for to curse enemy my to take: take you and behold to bless to bless

12 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?”

and to answer and to say not [obj] which to set: put LORD in/on/with lip my [obj] him to keep: careful to/for to speak: speak

13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”

and to say to(wards) him Balak (to go: come [emph?] *QK) please with me to(wards) place another which to see: see him from there end end his to see: see and all his not to see: see and to curse me to/for me from there

14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

and to take: take him land: country Zophim to(wards) head: top [the] Pisgah and to build seven altar and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar

15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”

and to say to(wards) Balak to stand thus upon burnt offering your and I to meet thus

16 The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

and to meet LORD to(wards) Balaam and to set: put word in/on/with lip his and to say to return: return to(wards) Balak and thus to speak: speak

17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”

and to come (in): come to(wards) him and behold he to stand upon burnt offering his and ruler Moab with him and to say to/for him Balak what? to speak: speak LORD

18 He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

and to lift: loud proverb his and to say to arise: rise Balak and to hear: hear to listen [emph?] till me son: child his Zippor

19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?

not man God and to lie and son: child man and to be sorry: relent he/she/it to say and not to make: do and to speak: speak and not to arise: establish her

20 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

behold to bless to take: recieve and to bless and not to return: turn back her

21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is amongst them.

not to look evil: trouble in/on/with Jacob and not to see: see trouble in/on/with Israel LORD God his with him and shout king in/on/with him

22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

God to come out: send them from Egypt like/as peak wild ox to/for him

23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

for not divination in/on/with Jacob and not divination in/on/with Israel like/as time to say to/for Jacob and to/for Israel what? to work God

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.”

look! people like/as lion to arise: rise and like/as lion to lift: raise not to lie down: lay down till to eat prey and blood slain: killed to drink

25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”

and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam also to curse not to curse him also to bless not to bless him

26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”

and to answer Balaam and to say to(wards) Balak not to speak: speak to(wards) you to/for to say all which to speak: speak LORD [obj] him to make: do

27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

and to say Balak to(wards) Balaam to go: come! [emph?] please to take: take you to(wards) place another perhaps to smooth in/on/with eye: appearance [the] God and to curse him to/for me from there

28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

and to take: take Balak [obj] Balaam head: top [the] Peor [the] to look upon face: surface [the] wilderness

29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

and to say Balaam to(wards) Balak to build to/for me in/on/with this seven altar and to establish: prepare to/for me in/on/with this seven bullock and seven ram

30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

and to make: do Balak like/as as which to say Balaam and to ascend: offer up bullock and ram in/on/with altar