Numbers 23

Gen Z: Numbers 23

1Balaam told Balak, "Yo, build me seven altars here and get me seven oxen and seven rams. Let's vibe."

2Balak was like, “Bet,” and did what Balaam said; they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

3Balaam said to Balak, "Chill by your burnt offering, I’m gonna bounce. Maybe the Lord will pull up and show me what's good. I’ll spill the tea."

4God pulled up on Balaam and said, “I see you’ve got seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each. That’s lit.”

5The Lord dropped a word in Balaam’s mouth, told him, “Go back to Balak and say this.”

6He went back and found Balak chilling by his burnt sacrifice with all the Moab princes.

7Balaam started his parable, saying, “Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, outta the mountains, saying, ‘Come, curse Jacob and defy Israel.’”

8“How can I curse who God hasn’t cursed? How can I defy who the Lord hasn’t defied? No cap.”

9“From the top of the rocks, I see them; from the hills, I behold them: the people are solo and not counted among the nations.”

10“Who can count Jacob's dust or the number of Israel’s crew? Let me go out like the righteous and end my life on the same vibe!”

11Balak was like, "Yo, what did you just do to me? I brought you here to roast my enemies, and now you’re blessing them, fr?"

12Balaam fired back, "Do I not gotta say what the Lord put in my mouth? No cap."

13Balak was like, "Aight, come with me to another spot where you can see them better. You’ll only catch a glimpse, but curse them from there."

14So, he took him to Zophim’s field, up on Pisgah, built seven altars, and sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one.

15He told Balak, "Chill here by your burnt offering while I go meet the Lord over there."

16The Lord met Balaam, dropped a word in his mouth, and said, "Go back to Balak and say this."

17When he got back, Balak was standing by his offering with the Moab princes. Balak asked, "What did the Lord say?"

18Balaam picked up his parable and said, "Yo, Balak, listen up; pay attention, son of Zippor."

19God ain’t like a man to lie or a son of man to change his mind. If He says it, He’s gonna do it, no cap.

20Check it, I got the order to bless, and He blessed; I can’t switch that vibe up.

21No cap, God ain't seen any bad vibes in Jacob or Israel; He's with them, and the king's energy is lit among them.

22God flexed hard bringing them outta Egypt; He's got the strength of a unicorn, fr.

23For real, there's no magic against Jacob or divination against Israel; people gonna say, "Look what God did!"

24Watch out, the crew's rising like a fierce lion, and he ain't chilling till he gets his prey and drinks up, periodt.

25Balak was like, "Don't curse them or bless them, just chill."

26Balaam shot back, "Did I not tell you? Whatever the Lord says, that's what I gotta do, no cap."

27Balak was like, "Yo, come with me; maybe God will let you curse them from a different spot."

28Balak took Balaam to the peak of Peor, looking over Jeshimon.

29Balaam told Balak, "Build me seven altars here and get seven bulls and seven rams ready."

30Balak did what Balaam said, offering a bull and a ram on each altar.

KJV: Numbers 23

1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

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

3And 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.

4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

5And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

7And 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.

8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

9For 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.

10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?

13And 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.

14And 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.

15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.

16And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

17And 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?

18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

19God 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?

20Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

24Behold, 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.

25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do?

27And 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.

28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

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

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