╬╒═ 24:1 ┴ND WHEN ┬ALAAM SAW THAT IT PLEASED THE ╠╧╥─ TO BLESS ╔SRAEL, HE WENT NOT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, TO SEEK FOR ENCHANTMENTS, BUT HE SET HIS FACE TOWARD THE WILDERNESS.
╬╒═ 24:2 ┴ND ┬ALAAM LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND HE SAW ╔SRAEL ABIDING IN HIS TENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR TRIBES; AND THE SPIRIT OF ╟OD CAME UPON HIM.
╬╒═ 24:3 ┴ND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ┬ALAAM THE SON OF ┬EOR HATH SAID, AND THE MAN WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN HATH SAID:
╬╒═ 24:4 ╚E HATH SAID, WHICH HEARD THE WORDS OF ╟OD, WHICH SAW THE VISION OF THE ┴LMIGHTY, FALLING INTO A TRANCE, BUT HAVING HIS EYES OPEN:
╬╒═ 24:5 ╚OW GOODLY ARE THY TENTS, ╧ ╩ACOB, AND THY TABERNACLES, ╧ ╔SRAEL!
╬╒═ 24:6 ┴S THE VALLEYS ARE THEY SPREAD FORTH, AS GARDENS BY THE RIVER'S SIDE, AS THE TREES OF LIGN ALOES WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ HATH PLANTED, AND AS CEDAR TREES BESIDE THE WATERS.
╬╒═ 24:7 ╚E SHALL POUR THE WATER OUT OF HIS BUCKETS, AND HIS SEED SHALL BE IN MANY WATERS, AND HIS KING SHALL BE HIGHER THAN ┴GAG, AND HIS KINGDOM SHALL BE EXALTED.
╬╒═ 24:8 ╟OD BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF ┼GYPT; HE HATH AS IT WERE THE STRENGTH OF AN UNICORN: HE SHALL EAT UP THE NATIONS HIS ENEMIES, AND SHALL BREAK THEIR BONES, AND PIERCE THEM THROUGH WITH HIS ARROWS.
╬╒═ 24:9 ╚E COUCHED, HE LAY DOWN AS A LION, AN AS A GREAT LION: WHO SHALL STIR HIM UP? ┬LESSED IS HE THAT BLESSETH THEE, AND CURSED IS HE THAT CURSETH THEE.
╬╒═ 24:10 ┴ND ┬ALAK'S ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST ┬ALAAM, AND HE SMOTE HIS HANDS TOGETHER: AND ┬ALAK SAID UNTO ┬ALAAM, ╔ CALLED THEE TO CURSE MINE ENEMIES, AND, BEHOLD, THOU HAST ALTOGETHER BLESSED THEM THESE THREE TIMES.
╬╒═ 24:11 ╘HEREFORE NOW FLEE THOU TO THY PLACE: ╔ THOUGHT TO PROMOTE THEE UNTO GREAT HONOUR; BUT, LO, THE ╠╧╥─ HATH KEPT THEE BACK FROM HONOUR.
╬╒═ 24:12 ┴ND ┬ALAAM SAID UNTO ┬ALAK, ╙PAKE ╔ NOT ALSO TO THY MESSENGERS WHICH THOU SENTEST UNTO ME, SAYING,
╬╒═ 24:13 ╔F ┬ALAK WOULD GIVE ME HIS HOUSE FULL OF SILVER AND GOLD, ╔ CANNOT GO BEYOND THE COMMANDMENT OF THE ╠╧╥─, TO DO EITHER GOOD OR BAD OF MINE OWN MIND; BUT WHAT THE ╠╧╥─ SAITH, THAT WILL ╔ SPEAK?
╬╒═ 24:14 ┴ND NOW, BEHOLD, ╔ GO UNTO MY PEOPLE: COME THEREFORE, AND ╔ WILL ADVERTISE THEE WHAT THIS PEOPLE SHALL DO TO THY PEOPLE IN THE LATTER DAYS.
╬╒═ 24:15 ┴ND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ┬ALAAM THE SON OF ┬EOR HATH SAID, AND THE MAN WHOSE EYES ARE OPEN HATH SAID:
╬╒═ 24:16 ╚E HATH SAID, WHICH HEARD THE WORDS OF ╟OD, AND KNEW THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOST ╚IGH, WHICH SAW THE VISION OF THE ┴LMIGHTY, FALLING INTO A TRANCE, BUT HAVING HIS EYES OPEN:
╬╒═ 24:17 ╔ SHALL SEE HIM, BUT NOT NOW: ╔ SHALL BEHOLD HIM, BUT NOT NIGH: THERE SHALL COME A ╙TAR OUT OF ╩ACOB, AND A ╙CEPTRE SHALL RISE OUT OF ╔SRAEL, AND SHALL SMITE THE CORNERS OF ═OAB, AND DESTROY ALL THE CHILDREN OF ╙HETH.
╬╒═ 24:18 ┴ND ┼DOM SHALL BE A POSSESSION, ╙EIR ALSO SHALL BE A POSSESSION FOR HIS ENEMIES; AND ╔SRAEL SHALL DO VALIANTLY.
╬╒═ 24:19 ╧UT OF ╩ACOB SHALL COME HE THAT SHALL HAVE DOMINION, AND SHALL DESTROY HIM THAT REMAINETH OF THE CITY.
╬╒═ 24:20 ┴ND WHEN HE LOOKED ON ┴MALEK, HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ┴MALEK WAS THE FIRST OF THE NATIONS; BUT HIS LATTER END SHALL BE THAT HE PERISH FOR EVER.
╬╒═ 24:21 ┴ND HE LOOKED ON THE ╦ENITES, AND TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ╙TRONG IS THY DWELLINGPLACE, AND THOU PUTTEST THY NEST IN A ROCK.
╬╒═ 24:22 ╬EVERTHELESS THE ╦ENITE SHALL BE WASTED, UNTIL ┴SSHUR SHALL CARRY THEE AWAY CAPTIVE.
╬╒═ 24:23 ┴ND HE TOOK UP HIS PARABLE, AND SAID, ┴LAS, WHO SHALL LIVE WHEN ╟OD DOETH THIS!
╬╒═ 24:24 ┴ND SHIPS SHALL COME FROM THE COAST OF ├HITTIM, AND SHALL AFFLICT ┴SSHUR, AND SHALL AFFLICT ┼BER, AND HE ALSO SHALL PERISH FOR EVER.
╬╒═ 24:25 ┴ND ┬ALAAM ROSE UP, AND WENT AND RETURNED TO HIS PLACE: AND ┬ALAK ALSO WENT HIS WAY.
