English Bible Presentation Sharing - Numbers Book, chapter 23, verse 52 in Nlv Version

Numbers 23 : 1 (NLV)

Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me. And make ready seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

Numbers 23 : 2 (NLV)

Balak did as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam gave a bull and a ram on each altar in worship.

Numbers 23 : 3 (NLV)

Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt gift, and I will go. It might be that the Lord will come to me. And whatever He shows me I will tell you." So he went up to a hill without trees.

Numbers 23 : 4 (NLV)

God met Balaam. Balaam said to Him, "I have made seven altars. And I have given a bull and a ram on each altar in worship."

Numbers 23 : 5 (NLV)

Then the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak. This is what you should say."

Numbers 23 : 6 (NLV)

So Balaam returned to Balak, and saw him and all the leaders of Moab standing beside his burnt gift.

Numbers 23 : 7 (NLV)

Balaam began speaking and said, "Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east. 'Come, curse Jacob for me,' he said. 'Come, say that Israel should be punished!'

Numbers 23 : 8 (NLV)

How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I say that those should be punished whom God has not said should be punished?

Numbers 23 : 9 (NLV)

I see Israel from the top of the rocks. I look at them from the hills. See, the people live apart. They will not be thought of as one of the nations.

Numbers 23 : 10 (NLV)

Who can number the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of those who are right and good. Let my end be like theirs!"

Numbers 23 : 11 (NLV)

Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse those who hate me. But see, you have asked that good would come to them!"

Numbers 23 : 12 (NLV)

Balaam answered, "Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?"

Numbers 23 : 13 (NLV)

Balak said to him, "I beg you, come with me to another place from where you will see them. But you will only see a part of them and not all of them. Curse them for me from there."

Numbers 23 : 14 (NLV)

So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah. He built seven altars and gave a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23 : 15 (NLV)

Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt gift, while I meet the Lord over there."

Numbers 23 : 16 (NLV)

The Lord met Balaam and put words in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak. This is what you should say."

Numbers 23 : 17 (NLV)

So he returned to Balak, and saw him and all the leaders of Moab standing beside his burnt gift. Balak said to him, "What has the Lord said?"

Numbers 23 : 18 (NLV)

Then Balaam began speaking and said, "Rise, O Balak, and hear! Listen to me, O son of Zippor!

Numbers 23 : 19 (NLV)

God is not a man, that He should lie. He is not a son of man, that He should be sorry for what He has said. Has He said, and will He not do it? Has He spoken, and will He not keep His Word?

Numbers 23 : 20 (NLV)

See, I have been told to speak good of Israel. When He has spoken good of them, I cannot change it.

Numbers 23 : 21 (NLV)

No hard times are seen in Jacob. No trouble is seen in Israel. The Lord their God is with them. And the cry of a king is among them.

Numbers 23 : 22 (NLV)

God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull.

Numbers 23 : 23 (NLV)

For there is no special thing that has been shown against Jacob. Nothing has told of a bad future for Israel. Now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, 'Look what God has done!'

Numbers 23 : 24 (NLV)

See, people rise like a female lion. It lifts itself like a lion. It will not lie down until it eats the food it has killed, and drinks the blood of the kill."

Numbers 23 : 25 (NLV)

Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all or pray that good would come to them!"

Numbers 23 : 26 (NLV)

But Balaam answered Balak, "Did I not tell you that I must do whatever the Lord says?"

Numbers 23 : 27 (NLV)

Then Balak said to Balaam, "I beg you, come. I will take you to another place. It might be that God will be pleased to have you curse them for me from there."

Numbers 23 : 28 (NLV)

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which looks over the desert.

Numbers 23 : 29 (NLV)

Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here. And make ready seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

Numbers 23 : 30 (NLV)

Balak did just as Balaam had said. He gave a bull and a ram on each altar in worship.