Numbers 23:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?

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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."

Numbers 23:3 Cross References

Numbers 23:15

0 I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

Numbers 24:1

As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

Leviticus 1:1

And when they have flayed the victim, they shall cut the joints into pieces,

Genesis 22:13

3 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.

Genesis 22:2

He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for a holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.

Genesis 8:20

0 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Exodus 18:12

5 And Moses answered him: The people come to me to seek the judgment of God.

Matthew 4:8

6 The people that sat in darkness, hath seen great light: and to them that sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.

Numbers 23:2

And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel.

Numbers 23:4

I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Numbers 23:12

7 Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?

Numbers 23:26

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,

Joshua 24:10

5 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.