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4 Mosebok 23

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1 Da sa Bileam til Balak: Bygg syv alter for mig her, og la mig få hit syv okser og syv værer!

2 Balak gjorde som Bileam sa; og Balak og Bileam ofret en okse og en vær på hvert alter.

3 sa Bileam til Balak: Bli stående her ved ditt brennoffer, så vil jeg gå bort en stund; kanskje Herren kommer mig i møte, og hvad han lar mig skue, det skal jeg la dig få vite. Så gikk han op på en bar høide.

4 Der kom Gud Bileam i møte, og Bileam sa til ham: Nu har jeg stelt til syv alter og ofret en okse og en vær på hvert alter.

5 Da la Herren et ord i Bileams munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt dig!

6 Da han kom tilbake, så han Balak stå ved sitt brennoffer sammen med alle Moabs høvdinger.

7 Da tok han til å kvede og sa: Fra Aram henter mig Balak, fra Østens fjell Moabs konge: Kom og forbann for mig Jakob! Kom og tal ondt over Israel!

8 Hvorledes skal jeg forbanne den Gud ikke forbanner? Hvorledes skal jeg tale ondt over den Herren ikke taler ondt over?

9 For fra fjellets tinde ser jeg ham, og fra høidene skuer jeg ham: Se, det er et folk som bor for sig selv, og blandt hedningefolkene regner det sig ikke.

10 Hvem teller Jakobs ætt, tall-løs som støvet, eller endog bare fjerdedelen av Israel? Min sjel de opriktiges død, og mitt endelikt vorde som deres!

11 Da sa Balak til Bileam: Hvad har du gjort mot mig? Til å forbanne mine fiender hentet jeg dig, og se, du har velsignet!

12 Men han svarte: Skulde jeg ikke akte på det Herren legger i min munn, og tale det?

13 Da sa Balak til ham: Kjære, kom og vær med mig til et annet sted, hvorfra du kan se dem - dog vil du bare få se den ytterste del av folket, det hele folk får du ikke se - og forbann dem for mig derfra!

14 Så tok han ham med sig til speider-haugen på toppen av Pisga og bygget der syv alter og ofret en okse og en vær på hvert alter.

15 Og Bileam sa til Balak: Bli stående her ved ditt brennoffer mens jeg går der bort for å få en åpenbaring.

16 Og Herren kom Bileam i møte og la et ord i hans munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt dig!

17 Da han kom til ham, så han ham stå ved sitt brennoffer sammen med Moabs høvdinger; og Balak sa til ham: Hvad har Herren talt?

18 Da tok han til å kvede og sa: Stå op, Balak, og hør! Lytt til mig, du Sippors sønn!

19 Gud er ikke et menneske at han skulde lyve, ei heller et menneskes barn at han skulde angre; skulde han si noget og ikke gjøre det, skulde han tale og ikke sette det i verk?

20 Se, å velsigne blev mig gitt; han har velsignet, og jeg kan ikke omstøte det.

21 Ei skuer han urett i Jakob, ei ser han elendighet i Israel; Herren hans Gud er med ham, og kongejubel lyder der.

22 Gud førte dem ut av Egypten; styrke har de som en villokse.

23 For ikke finnes det trolldom i Jakob, og ikke spådomskunster i Israel; når tiden er der, blir det sagt til Jakob og til Israel hvad Gud vil gjøre.

24 Se - et folk som reiser sig som en løvinne, springer op som en løve; ei legger det sig før det har mettet sig med rov og drukket dreptes blod.

25 Da sa Balak til Bileam: Du skal hverken forbanne det eller velsigne det.

26 Men Bileam svarte Balak: Har jeg ikke allerede sagt dig at jeg i ett og alt må gjøre som Herren sier?

27 Da sa Balak til Bileam: Kjære, kom, så vil jeg ta dig med til et annet sted; kanskje Gud vil tillate at du forbanner dem for mig derfra.

28 Så tok Balak Bileam med op på toppen av Peor, hvorfra en skuer ut over ørkenen.

29 Da sa Bileam til Balak: Bygg syv alter for mig her og la mig få syv okser og syv værer!

30 Og Balak gjorde som Bileam sa, og ofret en okse og en vær på hvert alter.

   

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103. We can tell from the books of Moses that there was a Word among the ancients because he mentioned it and excerpted from it (Numbers 21:14-15, 27-30). We can tell that the narrative portions of that Word were called “The Wars of Jehovah, ” and that the prophetic portions were called “Pronouncements.” Moses quoted the following from the historical narratives of that Word:

Therefore it says in The Book of the Wars of Jehovah, “Waheb in Suphah and the rivers Arnon, a watercourse of rivers that goes down to [where] Ar is inhabited and rests along the border of Moab.” (Numbers 21:14-15)

In that Word as in ours, the wars of Jehovah were understood to be, and served to describe in detail, the Lord’s battles against hell and his victories over it when he would come into the world. These same battles are meant and described time after time in the historical narratives of our Word - in Joshua’s battles against the nations of the land of Canaan, for example, and in the wars of the judges and the kings of Israel.

[2] Moses quoted the following from the prophetic portions of that Word:

Therefore those who make pronouncements say, “Come to Heshbon! The city of Sihon will be built up and fortified, because fire has gone out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, those who occupy the heights of Arnon. Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh; he has made his sons fugitives and sent his daughters into captivity to Sihon, king of the Amorites. With arrows we have dealt with them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, and we have spread destruction as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba.” (Numbers 21:27-30)

Translators change [the title of] this to “Composers of Proverbs, ” but it should be called “Makers of Pronouncements” or “Prophetic Pronouncements, ” as we can tell from the meaning of the word moschalim in Hebrew. It means not only proverbs but also prophetic utterances, as in Numbers 23:7, 18; 24:3, 15 where it says that Balaam gave forth his pronouncement, which was actually a prophetic utterance and was about the Lord. In these instances each of his pronouncements is called a mashal in the singular. There is also the fact that what Moses quoted from this source are not proverbs but prophecies.

[3] We can see that this Word was similarly divine or divinely inspired from a passage in Jeremiah where we find almost the same words:

A fire has gone out from Heshbon and a flame from the midst of Sihon, which has devoured the corner of Moab and the top of the children of tumult. Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been carried off into captivity and your daughters into captivity. (Jeremiah 48:45-46)

Further, both David and Joshua mention another prophetic book of the former Word, The Book of Jasher or The Book of the Righteous One. Here is where David mentions it:

David lamented over Saul and over Jonathan and wrote, “‘To Teach the Children of Judah the Bow.’ (You will find this written in The Book of Jasher.)” (2 Samuel 1:17-18)

Here is where Joshua mentions it:

Joshua said, “‘Come to rest, O sun, in Gibeon; and, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.’ Is this not written in The Book of Jasher?” (Joshua 10:12-13)

Then too, I have been told that the first seven chapters of Genesis are right there in that ancient Word, so that not the slightest word is missing.

  
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Genesis 2

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1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

13 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

18 Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

20 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of man."

24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.