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Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place from which you can see them–you will see only a portion of them; you will not see all of them–and damn them for me from there.” With that, he took him to Sedehzophim, on the summit of Pisgah. He built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. And [Balaam] said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offerings, while I seek a manifestation yonder.”
\nThe Lord manifested Himself to Balaam and put a word in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak thus.” He went to him and found him standing beside his offerings, and the Moabite dignitaries with him. Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?” And he took up his theme, and said:
\nUp, Balak, attend,
\nGive ear unto me, son of Zippor!
\nGod is not man to be capricious,
\nOr mortal to change His mind.
\nWould He speak and not act,
\nPromise and not fulfill?
\nMy message was to bless:
\nWhen He blesses, I cannot reverse it.
\nNo harm is in sight for Jacob,
\nNo woe in view for Israel.
\nThe Lord their God is with them,
\nAnd their King’s acclaim in their midst.
\nGod who freed them from Egypt
\nIs for them like the horns of the wild ox.
\nLo, there is no augury in Jacob,
\nNo divining in Israel:
\nJacob is told at once,
\nYea Israel, what God has planned.
\nLo, a people that rises like a lion,
\nLeaps up like the king of beasts,
\nRests not till it has feasted on prey
\nAnd drunk the blood of the slain.
\nThereupon Balak said to Balaam, “Don’t curse them and don’t bless them!” In reply, Balaam said to Balak, “But I told you: Whatever the Lord says, that I must do.”
\nFrom Parshat Balak. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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