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 he sheweth me I 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 everyaltar 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 brought me from Aram, out
of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whomthe LORD hath not
defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I 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 dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth partof Israel? Let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine
enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed themaltogether.
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 all: and
curse me them from thence.
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and
offered a bullock and a ram on everyaltar.
15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORDyonder.
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and
say thus.
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab
with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of
Zippor:
19 God isnot a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he
said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandmentto 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 iswith him, and the shout of a king isamong them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
23 Surely there isno enchantment against Jacob, neither is thereany 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: he shall
not lie down until he eat ofthe prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither 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 unto another place;
peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
28 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.
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on everyaltar.
1 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 tentsaccording 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 vision of the Almighty, falling
into a trance, but having his eyes open:
5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, andthy tabernacles, O Israel!
6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes
which the LORD hath planted, andas cedar trees beside the waters.
7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall bein 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 themthrough with his
arrows.
9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed ishe
that blesseth thee, and cursed ishe that curseth thee.
10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak
said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed
themthese 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,
13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the
commandment of the LORD, to do eithergood or bad of mine own mind; butwhat the LORD saith,
that will I speak?
14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, andI will advertise thee what this
people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose
eyes are open hath said:
16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge 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: I 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.
18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel
shall do valiantly.
19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of
the city.
20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek wasthe first of the
nations; but his latter end shall bethat he perish for ever.
21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace,
and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall 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 comefrom the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, 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.
1 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 Baalpeor: 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 men that were joined unto
Baalpeor.
6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish
woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel,
who wereweeping beforethe 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 Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the
children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, eventhe covenant of an everlasting priesthood;
because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, eventhat was slain with the Midianitish
woman, wasZimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain wasCozbi, the daughter of Zur; he
washead over a people, andof a chief house in Midian.
16 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor,
and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in
the day of the plague for Peor's sake.
1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son
of Aaron the priest, saying,
2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and
upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near
Jericho, saying,
4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses
and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
5 Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom comeththe family
of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
7 These arethe families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty