Numbers 24:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵“People of Israel,
    your camp is lovely.
⁶It's like a grove of palm trees^[a]
    or a garden beside a river.
You are like tall aloe trees
    that the Lord has planted,
or like cedars
    growing near water.
⁷You and your descendants
will prosper like an orchard
    beside a stream.
Your king will rule with power
and be a greater king
    than Agag the Amalekite.^[b]

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Footnotes

24.6 grove of palm trees: Or “green valley.”
24.7 Agag the Amalekite: The Amalekites were longtime enemies of the Israelites (see Exodus 17.8-16), and Agag was one of their most powerful kings.

Numbers 24:5-7

New International Version

⁵“How beautiful are your tents,^(A) Jacob,
your dwelling places, Israel!

⁶“Like valleys they spread out,
    like gardens beside a river,^(B)
like aloes^(C) planted by the Lord,
    like cedars beside the waters.^(D)
⁷Water will flow from their buckets;
    their seed will have abundant water.