Numbers 23:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord will meet with me. I will tell you whatever he reveals to me.’ So he went to a barren hill.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.

Common English Bible

³ Balaam said to Balak, “Stay by your entirely burned offering. I will go and perhaps the LORD will grant me an appearance and speak. Whatever he shows me, I will tell you.” Then he went off to a high outlook.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And Balaam said to Balak: "Stand for a little while next to your holocaust, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet with me. And whatever he will command, I shall speak to you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt-offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.

Numbers 23:3 Cross References

Genesis 22:13

Abraham looked up and saw a ram  caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Genesis 22:2

‘Take your son,’ he said, ‘your only son Isaac, whom you love,  go to the land of Moriah,  and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.’

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’s father-in-law in God’s presence.

Leviticus 1:1

Then the Lord summoned Moses  and spoke to him from the tent of meeting:

Numbers 23:12

He answered, ‘Shouldn’t I say exactly what the Lord puts in my mouth? ’

Numbers 23:15

Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.’

Numbers 23:2

So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered him, ‘Didn’t I tell you: Whatever the Lord says, I must do? ’

Numbers 23:4

God met with him and Balaam said to him, ‘I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.’

Numbers 24:1

Since Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go to seek omens as on previous occasions, but turned  towards the wilderness.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour.

Joshua 24:10

but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he repeatedly blessed you, and I rescued you from him.