024:012 Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying, 024:013 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak? 024:014 Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days. 024:015 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says; 024:016 he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open: 024:017 I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth. 024:018 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly. 024:019 Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city. 024:020 He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction. 024:021 He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock. 024:022 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, until Asshur carries you away captive. 024:023 He took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this? 024:024 But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim. They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber. He also shall come to destruction. 024:025 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way. 025:001 Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: 025:002 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. 025:003 Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel. 025:004 Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel. 025:005 Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor. 025:006 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. 025:007 When Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation,