Números 23— comparação

1Balaão disse a Balaque: “Construa-me aqui sete altares, e prepare-me aqui sete touros e sete carneiros.”

2Balaque fez como Balaão tinha falado; e Balaque e Balaão ofereceram em cada altar um touro e um carneiro.

3Balaão disse a Balaque: “Fique junto ao seu holocausto, e eu irei. Talvez o SENHOR venha ao meu encontro. O que ele me mostrar, eu lhe direi.”

4Deus encontrou-se com Balaão, e este lhe disse: “Preparei os sete altares, e ofereci um touro e um carneiro em cada altar.”

5O SENHOR colocou uma palavra na boca de Balaão, e disse: “Volte a Balaque, e assim você falará.”

6Ele voltou para ele, e eis que estava em pé junto ao seu holocausto, ele e todos os príncipes de Moabe.

7Ele proferiu o seu oráculo, e disse:

8Como amaldiçoarei a quem Deus não amaldiçoou?

9Pois do topo das rochas eu o vejo.

10Quem pode contar o pó de Jacó,

11Balaque disse a Balaão: “O que você fez comigo? Eu o trouxe para amaldiçoar meus inimigos, e eis que você os abençoou inteiramente.”

12Ele respondeu e disse: “Não devo eu ter o cuidado de falar o que o SENHOR coloca em minha boca?”

13Balaque lhe disse: “Por favor, venha comigo para outro lugar, de onde você possa vê-los. Você verá apenas uma parte deles, e não os verá todos. Amaldiçoe-os de lá para mim.”

14Ele o levou ao campo de Zofim, ao topo de Pisga, construiu sete altares, e ofereceu um touro e um carneiro em cada altar.

15Ele disse a Balaque: “Fique aqui junto ao seu holocausto, enquanto eu me encontro com Deus ali.”

16O SENHOR encontrou-se com Balaão, colocou uma palavra em sua boca, e disse: “Volte a Balaque, e diga isto.”

17Ele foi até ele, e eis que estava em pé junto ao seu holocausto, e os príncipes de Moabe com ele. Balaque lhe perguntou: “O que o SENHOR falou?”

18Ele proferiu o seu oráculo, e disse:

19Deus não é homem, para que minta,

20Eis que recebi ordem para abençoar.

21Ele não viu iniquidade em Jacó.

22Deus os tira do Egito.

23Certamente não há encantamento contra Jacó;

24Eis que um povo se levanta como leoa.

25Balaque disse a Balaão: “Não os amaldiçoe de forma alguma, nem os abençoe de forma alguma.”

26Mas Balaão respondeu a Balaque: “Eu não lhe disse: 'Tudo o que o SENHOR falar, isso eu devo fazer'?”

27Balaque disse a Balaão: “Venha agora, eu o levarei a outro lugar; talvez agrade a Deus que de lá você os amaldiçoe para mim.”

28Balaque levou Balaão ao topo de Peor, que tem vista para o deserto.

29Balaão disse a Balaque: “Construa-me aqui sete altares, e prepare-me aqui sete touros e sete carneiros.”

30Balaque fez como Balaão tinha dito, e ofereceu um touro e um carneiro em cada altar.

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

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

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

4God 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.”

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

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

7He 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.

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

9For 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 among the nations.

10Who 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!”

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

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

13Balak 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.”

14He 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.

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

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

17He 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 Yahweh spoken?”

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

19God 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?

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

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

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

23Surely 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!’

24Behold, 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.”

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

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

27Balak 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.”

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

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

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