Numbers 23:7
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.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- assumptaque parabola sua, dixit : De Aram adduxit me Balac rex Moabitarum, de montibus orientis : Veni, inquit, et maledic Jacob ; propera, et detestare Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀναλαβὼν τὴν παραβολὴν αὐτοῦ εἶπεν Ἐκ Μεσοποταμίας μετεπέμψατό με Βαλάκ, βασιλεὺς Μωὰβ ἐξ ὀρέων ἀπ᾽ ἀνατολῶν, λέγων Δεῦρο ἄρασαί μοι τὸν Ἰακώβ, καὶ δεῦρο ἐπικατάρασαί μοι τὸν Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשָּׂ֥א מְשָׁל֖וֹ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר מִן אֲ֠רָם יַנְחֵ֨נִי בָלָ֤ק מֶֽלֶךְ מוֹאָב֙ מֵֽהַרְרֵי קֶ֔דֶם לְכָה֙ אָֽרָה לִּ֣י יַעֲקֹ֔ב וּלְכָ֖ה זֹעֲמָ֥ה יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Parable. Beginning to speak in a beautiful and poetic style, like a man inspired. (Calmet)
Mashal, denotes a striking and elegant prophecy. (Menochius)
Aram, when placed alone, properly means Syria; but when Padan or Naharaim are added, Mesopotamia is meant, whence Balaam came, Deuteronomy xxii. 5.
East of Moab, though lying to the north, or higher part of Mesopotamia. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.