H9002–/וְ–v

Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height.

וְאֵֽלְכָ֗ה (וְ) ve. “so”וּדְבַ֥ר (וּ) u. “and”

God 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.

וָאַ֖יִל (וָ) va. “and”

Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.

וְכֹ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְהִנֵּ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”וְכָל־ (וְ) ve. “and”

He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.

וּלְכָ֖ה (וּ) u. “and”

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

וּמָ֣ה (וּ) u. “and”

For 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 reckoned among the nations.

וּמִגְּבָע֖וֹת (וּ) u. “and”וּבַגּוֹיִ֖ם (וּ) u. “and”

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

וּמִסְפָּ֖ר (וּ) u. “and”וּתְהִ֥י (וּ) u. “and”

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

וְהִנֵּ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.

וְכֻלּ֖וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְקָבְנוֹ־ (וְ) ve. “and”

He 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.

וָאַ֖יִל (וָ) va. “and”

He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [ergänzt: Yahweh] yonder.

וְאָנֹכִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”

Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.

וְכֹ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

He 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?

וְהִנּ֤וֹ (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׂרֵ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:

וּֽשֲׁמָ֔ע (וּֽ) u. “and”

God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

וִֽיכַזֵּ֔ב (וִֽ) vi. “so”וּבֶן־ (וּ) u. “and”וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם (וְ) ve. “so”וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

Behold, I have received [ergänzt: commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

וּבֵרֵ֖ךְ (וּ) u. “and”וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּתְרוּעַ֥ת (וּ) u. “and”

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּלְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (וּ) u. “and”

Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.

וְכַאֲרִ֖י (וְ) ve. “and”וְדַם־ (וְ) ve. “and”

Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.

וְהָכֵ֥ן (וְ) ve. “and”וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה (וְ) ve. “and”

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

וָאַ֖יִל (וָ) va. “and”

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, The man whose eye was closed says;

וּנְאֻ֥ם (וּ) u. “and”

He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

וּגְל֥וּי (וּ) u. “and”