And now therefore, I am going to my people. Come, let me give you counsel as to what this people will do to your people in the last days.

And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor declares, / And the man whose eye is opened declares;

He declares, he who hears the words of God / And obtains the knowledge of the Most High, / Who sees the vision of the All-sufficient One, / Falling down, but having his eyes uncovered:

I see Him, but not now; / I behold Him, but not near. / There shall come forth a Star out of Jacob, / And a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, / And He shall crush the corners of Moab / And break down all the sons of Sheth.

And Edom shall be dispossessed — / Seir, His enemies, shall also be dispossessed — / While Israel does valiantly.

And One from Jacob shall have dominion / And destroy the remnant from the city.

And he looked on Amalek and took up his parable and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, / But his latter end shall come to destruction.

And he looked on the Kenites and took up his parable and said, Strong is your dwelling place, / And your nest is set in the rock.

Nevertheless Kain shall be burned / Until Asshur carry you away captive.

And he took up his parable and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this?

But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, / And they shall afflict Asshur and shall afflict Eber; / And he also shall come to destruction.

And Balaam rose up and went back to his place, and Balak also went his way.

While Israel dwelt in Shittim, the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.

For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

And Israel joined itself to Baal-peor, and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the leaders of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, so that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.

And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.

Just then one of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his brothers in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the assembly and took a spear in his hand,

And he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her stomach. So the plague among the children of Israel was stopped.