Numbers 24:16-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁶My knowledge comes
from God Most High,
the Lord All-Powerful.
I bowed down to him
and saw a vision of Israel.

¹⁷“What I saw in my vision
    hasn't happened yet.
But someday, a king of Israel
    will appear like a star.
He will wipe out you Moabites^[a]
and destroy^[b] those tribes
    who live in the desert.^[c]
¹⁸Israel will conquer Edom
and capture the land
    of that enemy nation.

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Footnotes

24.17 you Moabites: Or “the territories of Moab.”
24.17 destroy: The Standard Hebrew Text; the Samaritan Hebrew Text “the skulls of.”
24.17 those tribes … desert: The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Sheth,” which probably refers to the people who lived in the desert areas of Canaan before the Israelites.