Torah
Bamidbar23
Numbers · Chapter 23
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on
every altar a bullock and a ram.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
And Elohim met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon
every altar a bullock and a ram.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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 Ya'aqov, and come, defy Yisra'el.
How shall I curse, whom Elohim hath not cursed? or how shall I defy,
whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath not defied?
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.
Who can count the dust of Ya'aqov, and the number of the fourth
part of Yisra'el? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed
them altogether.
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath put in my mouth?
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.
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
every altar.
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet
𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) yonder.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spoken?
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
Elohim
is not 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?
Behold, I have received
mitsvah to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Ya'aqov, neither hath he seen perverseness in Yisra'el: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) his Elohim
is with him, and the shout of a king
is among them.
Elohim brought them out of Mitsrayim; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
Surely
there is no enchantment against Ya'aqov, neither
is there any divination against Yisra'el: according to this time it shall be said of Ya'aqov and of Yisra'el, What hath Elohim wrought!
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
of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) speaketh, that I must do?
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please Elohim that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on
every altar.
Torah
Bamidbar24
Numbers · Chapter 24
And when Balaam saw that it pleased 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) to bless Yisra'el, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Yisra'el abiding
in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of Elohim came upon him.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
He hath said, which heard the words of Elohim, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling
into a trance, but having his eyes open:
How goodly are thy tents, O Ya'aqov,
and thy tabernacles, O Yisra'el!
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath planted,
and as cedar trees beside the waters.
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed
shall be
in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
Elohim brought him forth out of Mitsrayim; 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
them through with his arrows.
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed
is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
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
them these three times.
Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) hath kept thee back from honour.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the mitsvah of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), to do
either good or bad of mine own mind;
but what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) saith, that will I speak?
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come
therefore, and
I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
He hath said, which heard the words of Elohim, and knew the knowledge of the most High,
which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling
into a trance, but having his eyes open:
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Ya'aqov, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Yisra'el, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Yisra'el shall do valiantly.
Out of Ya'aqov shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek
was the first of the nations; but his latter end
shall be
that he perish for ever.
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.
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when Elohim doeth this!
And ships
shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.
Torah
Bamidbar25
Numbers · Chapter 25
And Yisra'el abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
And Yisra'el joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) was kindled against Yisra'el.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) said unto Mosheh, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) against the sun, that the fierce anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) may be turned away from Yisra'el.
And Mosheh said unto the judges of Yisra'el, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
And, behold, one of the children of Yisra'el came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Mosheh, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, who
were weeping
before the door of the mishkan of the congregation.
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the kohen, saw
it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
And he went after the man of Yisra'el into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Yisra'el, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Yisra'el.
And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the kohen, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Yisra'el, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Yisra'el in my jealousy.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my b'rit of peace:
And he shall have it, and his seed after him,
even the b'rit of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his Elohim, and made an kapparah for the children of Yisra'el.
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain,
even that was slain with the Midianitish woman,
was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain
was
Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he
was head over a people,
and of a chief house in Midian.
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) spake unto Mosheh, saying,
Vex the Midianites, and smite them:
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.