Numbers 24:14
Good News Translation
Balaam said to Balak, "Now I am going back to my own people, but before I go, I am warning you what the people of Israel will do to your people in the future."

New Revised Standard Version
So now, I am going to my people; let me advise you what this people will do to your people in days to come.”

Contemporary English Version
So I'm going back home, but I'm leaving you with a warning about what the Israelites will someday do to your nation."

New American Bible
“But now that I am about to go to my own people, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Numbers 24:3,4 He took up his parable and said: Balaam the son of Beor hath said: The man hath said, whose eye is stopped up: . . .

Numbers 23:7,18 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel. . . .

Job 27:1 Job also added, taking up his parable, and said:

Matthew 13:35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.

Context
Balak Dismisses Balaam
13If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I will speak? 14But yet going to my people, I will give thee counsel, what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
Cross References
Genesis 49:1
And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.

Numbers 24:25
And Balaam rose, and returned to his place: Balac also returned the way that he came.

Numbers 31:8
And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

Numbers 31:16
Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

Joshua 13:22
Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.

Numbers 24:13
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