For they did not meet Bnei-Yisrael with bread and water, but instead hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
Numbers 24:5 - Tree of Life Version How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings, O Israel! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, And thy tabernacles, O Israel! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How attractive and considerable are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel! American Standard Version (1901) How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel! Common English Bible How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your camps, Israel! Catholic Public Domain Version 'How beautiful are your tabernacles, O Jacob, and your tents, O Israel! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How beautiful are thy tabernacles, O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel! |
For they did not meet Bnei-Yisrael with bread and water, but instead hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.
These are the accounts of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, as they were recorded according to the commandment of Moses, by the service of the Levites, under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen.
You are beautiful, my darling, like Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.
You are to live in sukkot for seven days. All the native-born in Israel are to live in sukkot,
Adonai will cut off the man who does this, until he is cast from the tents of Jacob, and from offering a gift to Adonai-Tzva’ot.
So Bnei-Yisrael acted in accordance with all that Adonai had commanded Moses. Thus they camped by their standards and set out, each man according to their families and their ancestral houses.
Lifting up his eyes, Balaam saw Israel dwelling by tribes. The Ruach Elohim came over him.
the oracle of one hearing God’s speech, one seeing Shaddai’s vision, one fallen down, yet with open eyes:
Like valleys they are spread out, like gardens beside a river, like aloes planted by Adonai, like cedars beside the waters.
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Adonai, the Shield of your help and the Sword of your triumph? Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample on their backs.”
But I refused to listen to Balaam; instead, he had to keep blessing you. Thus I delivered you from his hand.