A WORD NOBODY CAN CONSTRUE — it stands in exactly two verses of the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 24:3 and 24:15, which are otherwise identical letter for letter: Balaam introducing himself as ha-gever shetum ha-ayin, the man whose eye is shetum. ⭐ The shelf holds three incompatible readings at once, two of them exact opposites. OPEN: KJV 'whose eyes are open', both Reina-Valeras «de ojos abiertos», the Living Bible the same. SHUT: the ASV 'whose eye was closed', Geneva 'shut up', the Douay-Rheims 'stopped up'. A STATE THAT CHANGED: the NWT 1984 'unsealed', the TNM 1987 «ya no sellado», with the NIV and NVI nearby. ⚠ This translation prints 'unsealed' on internal evidence rather than lexical: the very next line ends gelui einayim, with the eyes UNCOVERED, and Numbers 22:31 has Jehovah uncovering those same eyes so a professional seer could finally see what his donkey had seen three times. → first discussed at Num 24:3