Numbers 24:1
Good News Translation
By now Balaam knew that the LORD wanted him to bless the people of Israel, so he did not go to look for omens, as he had done before. He turned toward the desert

New Revised Standard Version
Now Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, so he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
Balaam was sure that the LORD would tell him to bless Israel again. So he did not use any magic to find out what the LORD wanted him to do, as he had the first two times. Instead, he looked out toward the desert

New American Bible
Balaam, however, perceiving that the LORD was pleased to bless Israel, did not go aside as before to seek omens, but turned his gaze toward the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,

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And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,

the spirit

Numbers 11:25-29 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards. . . .

1 Samuel 10:10 And they came to the foresaid hill, and behold a company of prophets met him: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he prophesied in the midst of them.

1 Samuel 19:20,23 So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw a company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding over them, the Spirit of the Lord came also upon them, and they likewise began to prophesy. . . .

2 Chronicles 15:1 And the spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Oded,

Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name?

Matthew 10:4,8 Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. . . .

Luke 10:20 But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

John 11:49-51 But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. . . .

Context
Balaam's Third Oracle
1And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,2And lifting up his eyes, he saw Israel abiding in their tents by their tribes: and the spirit of God rushing upon him,…
Cross References
Numbers 22:7
And the ancients of Moab, and the elders of Madian, went with the price of divination in their hands. And where they were come to Balaam, and had told him all the words of Balac:

Numbers 23:23
There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

Numbers 23:28
And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

Numbers 23:30
Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.

Numbers 23:30
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