These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 24
Tanakh 25 verses
- 1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased to , he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his toward the wilderness.
- 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw dwelling tribe by tribe; and the of came upon him.
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And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, And the saying of the man whose eye is opened;
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- 4 The saying of him who heareth the words of , Who seeth the of the Almighty, Fallen down, yet with opened eyes:
- 5 How goodly are thy tents, O , Thy dwellings, O !
- 6 As valleys stretched out, As gardens by the river-side; As aloes planted of , As cedars beside the waters;
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Water shall flow from his branches, And his seed shall be in many waters; And his shall be higher than Agag, And his shall be exalted.
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1 Chronicles 14:2 2 Samuel 5:12 Jeremiah 51:13 Revelation 17:1 Psalm 145:11-13 Philippians 2:10-11 John 1:49 Proverbs 5:16-18 Ezra 4:20 Revelation 17:15 1 Samuel 15:32-33 Psalm 2:6-10 Psalm 68:26 Revelation 11:15 Daniel 2:44 Isaiah 2:2 Psalm 93:3-4 1 Kings 4:21 Psalm 18:43 1 Samuel 15:8-9 Isaiah 48:1 Isaiah 9:7 Revelation 19:16 - 8 who brought him forth out of Is for him like the lofty horns of the wild-ox; He shall eat up the nations that are his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And pierce them through with his arrows.
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He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.
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- 10 And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together; and Balak said unto Balaam: ‘I called thee to mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times.
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Therefore now flee thou to thy place; I thought to promote thee unto great ; but, lo, hath kept thee back from .’
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And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Spoke I not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying:
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If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the of , to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what speaketh, that will I speak?
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- 14 And now, behold, I go unto my people; come, and I will announce to thee what this people shall do to thy people in the end of days.’
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And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of Beor, And the saying of the man whose eye is opened;
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The saying of him who heareth the words of , And knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Who seeth the of the Almighty, Fallen down, yet with opened eyes:
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I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; There shall step forth a star out of , And a scepter shall rise out of , And shall smite through the corners of , And break down all the sons of .
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Genesis 49:10 Revelation 22:16 Revelation 1:7 Zechariah 10:4 Revelation 11:15 Psalm 45:6 Isaiah 9:7 2 Peter 1:19 Luke 1:32-33 Hebrews 1:8 Job 19:25-27 Zechariah 12:10 Luke 1:78 2 Samuel 8:2 1 Samuel 14:38 2 Kings 3:5 Genesis 5:3-29 1 Chronicles 18:2 Matthew 2:2-9 Isaiah 15:1 Genesis 4:25-26 Numbers 21:29 Jude 1:11 2 Kings 3:26-27 Jude 1:14-15 Jeremiah 48:45 Psalm 78:70-72 Psalm 72:8-11 Psalm 110:2 -
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And shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession; While doeth valiantly.
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- 19 And out of shall one have dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from the city.
- 20 And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the first of the nations; But his end shall come to destruction.
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And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said: Though firm be thy dwelling-place, And though thy nest be set in the rock;
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Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
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And he took up his parable, and said: Alas, who shall live after hath appointed him?
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- 24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, And he also shall come to destruction.
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And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
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