Numbers 24:15-17
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Balaam’s Fourth Oracle
15 So he uttered his oracle, saying:
‘The oracle of Balaam son of Beor,
the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,[a]
16 the oracle of one who hears the words of God,
and knows the knowledge of the Most High,[b]
who sees the vision of the Almighty,[c]
who falls down, but with his eyes uncovered:
17 I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near—
a star shall come out of Jacob,
and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the borderlands[d] of Moab,
and the territory[e] of all the Shethites.
Footnotes
- Numbers 24:15 Or closed or open
- Numbers 24:16 Or of Elyon
- Numbers 24:16 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
- Numbers 24:17 Or forehead
- Numbers 24:17 Some Mss read skull
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