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1 Balán le dijo al rey: «Edifica siete altares y prepara siete becerros y siete carneros para el sacrificio».
1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
2 Balac hizo lo que Balán le pedía, y sacrificó un becerro y un carnero en cada altar.
2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
3 Entonces Balán le dijo al rey: «Quédate junto al altar de los sacrificios y yo iré a ver si el Señor se encuentra conmigo. Entonces te diré lo que él me diga». Subió luego hacia una cumbre solitaria,
3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
4 y Dios lo encontró allí. ―He preparado siete altares y he sacrificado un becerro y un carnero en cada uno —dijo Balán al Señor.
4 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.”
5 Entonces el Señor le dio a Balán un mensaje para el rey Balac.
5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 Cuando Balán regresó, el rey estaba de pie junto a las ofrendas que deben quemarse en forma completa con todos los príncipes de Moab.
6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 Este fue el mensaje de Balán: «Balac, rey de Moab, me trajo de la tierra de Aram, desde las montañas orientales. “Ven”, me dijo, “maldice a Jacob en favor mío. Deja que tu ira se alce contra Israel”.
7 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 Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
8 »Pero, ¿cómo puedo yo maldecir lo que Dios no ha maldecido? ¿Cómo puedo yo amenazar a un pueblo que Dios no ha amenazado?
8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
9 Los he visto desde las altas cumbres, los he observado desde las colinas. Viven solos, y prefieren ser distintos a cualquiera otra nación.
9 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 listed among the nations.
10 Son numerosos como el polvo, no se pueden contar. ¡Quién pudiera morir tan feliz como un israelita! ¡Oh, si yo pudiera terminar mi vida como termina la de ellos!».
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
11 ―¿Qué me has hecho? —preguntó el rey Balac—. ¡Yo te dije que maldijeras a mis enemigos, pero tú los has bendecido!
11 Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
12 ―¿Puedo decir algo distinto de lo que el Señor me ha dicho?
12 He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
13 Entonces Balac le dijo: ―Ven conmigo a otro lugar. Allí sólo verás una parte del pueblo de Israel. Maldice por lo menos a esa parte.
13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
14 El rey Balac tomó a Balán y lo llevó a los campos de Zofín en la cumbre del monte de Pisgá, y edificó allí siete altares y ofreció un becerro y un carnero en cada altar.
14 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.
15 Entonces Balán le dijo al rey: ―Quédate allí junto a los altares mientras yo voy a encontrarme con el Señor.
15 He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
16 Y el Señor se encontró con Balán y le dijo lo que tenía que decir.
16 Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
17 Luego Balán regresó con el rey y sus príncipes que estaban de pie junto a los altares. ―¿Qué te ha dicho el Señor? —le preguntó ansiosamente el rey.
17 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?”
18 Y la respuesta de Balán fue: «Levántate, Balac, y escucha: Escúchame, tú; hijo de Zipor.
18 He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
19 Dios no es hombre para que mienta; él no se arrepiente como los hombres. ¿Ha prometido alguna vez sin cumplir lo que ha dicho?
19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
20 He recibido orden de bendecirlos, porque Dios los ha bendecido, y esto no puede ser cambiado.
20 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
21 Él no ha visto pecado en Jacob, ni perversidad en Israel. El Señor su Dios está con ellos. Él es su rey.
21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
22 Dios los sacó de Egipto. Israel tiene la fortaleza del búfalo.
22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
23 No se puede maldecir a Jacob, y no hay magia que pueda hacer algo en su contra. Porque ahora se dirá de Israel: ¡Qué maravillas ha hecho Dios por ellos!
23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’
24 Esta gente se levanta como un león; no caerá hasta que haya comido lo capturado y haya bebido la sangre de los degollados».
24 Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”
25 ―Si no vas a maldecirlos, por lo menos no los bendigas —exclamó el rey Balac.
25 Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
26 Pero Balán contestó: ―¿No te dije que yo tengo que decir lo que el Señor me diga?
26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do’?”
27 ―Yo te llevaré a otro lugar —le dijo el rey—. Quizá desde allí el Señor quiera que los maldigas.
27 Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”
28 Lo llevó a la cumbre del monte Peor, que domina el desierto.
28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
29 Balán nuevamente le dijo al rey que construyera siete altares y preparara siete becerros y siete carneros para el sacrificio.
29 Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
30 El rey lo hizo así, y ofreció un becerro y un carnero en cada altar.
30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Balak
The son of Zippor and king of Moab, who feared Israel and hired Balaam to curse them, but each oracle from the high places turned into a blessing.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 22:2; Numbers 22:4; Numbers 23:2
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (28)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Numbers 23:29; Jude 11; Matthew 23:13; 2 Chronicles 29:21; Proverbs 15:8
- 2 Numbers 23:30; Numbers 23:14
- 3 Numbers 23:15; Genesis 8:20; Leviticus 1:1; Genesis 22:13; Genesis 22:2
- 4 Numbers 23:16; Luke 18:12; Ephesians 2:9; Numbers 22:20; Romans 3:27
- 5 Jeremiah 1:9; Deuteronomy 18:18; Isaiah 51:16; Isaiah 59:21; Numbers 23:16
- 7 Numbers 24:3; Numbers 22:5–6; Deuteronomy 23:4; Numbers 23:18; Job 29:1
- 8 Numbers 23:23; Isaiah 44:25; Numbers 23:20; Numbers 22:12; Isaiah 47:12–13
- 9 Deuteronomy 33:28; Deuteronomy 32:8; Exodus 33:16; Esther 3:8; Ezra 9:2
- 10 Genesis 13:16; Psalm 37:37; Psalm 116:15; Revelation 14:13; 2 Corinthians 5:1
- 11 Nehemiah 13:2; Numbers 24:10; Psalm 109:17–20; Numbers 23:7–8; Numbers 22:17
- 12 Numbers 22:38; Numbers 23:26; Numbers 24:13; Proverbs 26:25; Numbers 23:20
- 13 Psalm 109:17; James 3:9–10; Joshua 24:9; 1 Kings 20:28; Numbers 22:41
- 14 Isaiah 1:10–11; Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 4:49; Hosea 12:11; Isaiah 46:6
- 15 Numbers 23:3; Numbers 22:8
- 16 Numbers 23:5; Numbers 22:35; Numbers 24:1
- 17 Numbers 23:26; Jeremiah 37:17; 1 Samuel 3:17
- 18 Judges 3:20
- 19 1 Samuel 15:29; James 1:17; Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2
- 20 John 10:27–29; Numbers 22:12; Genesis 12:2; Genesis 22:17; Isaiah 43:13
- 21 Psalm 23:4; Matthew 1:23; Jeremiah 50:20; Romans 4:7–8; Exodus 29:45–46
- 22 Numbers 24:8; Deuteronomy 33:17; Job 39:9–11; Exodus 20:2; Psalm 22:21
- 23 Luke 10:18–19; Joshua 13:22; Numbers 24:1; Micah 6:4–5; Romans 16:20
- 24 Genesis 49:27; Genesis 49:9; Revelation 5:5; Numbers 24:8–9; Numbers 24:17
- 25 Psalm 2:1–3
- 26 Acts 5:29; Numbers 22:18; Acts 4:19–20; Numbers 22:38; 2 Chronicles 18:13
- 27 Romans 11:29; Numbers 23:13; Proverbs 21:30; Isaiah 46:10–11; Isaiah 14:27
- 28 Numbers 21:20; Psalm 106:28
- 29 Numbers 23:1–2
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