Numbers 23:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here near this altar. [289] I will go to another place. Then the Lord will come to me, and he will tell me what I must say.” Then Balaam went away to a higher place.

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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

Then Abraham saw a ram. The ram’s horns were caught in a bush. So Abraham went and got the ram and killed it. Abraham used the ram as a sacrifice [124] to God. Abraham’s son was saved.

Genesis 22:2

Then God said, “Take your son to the land of Moriah. At Moriah kill your son as a sacrifice [118] for me. This must be Isaac, your only son—the son you love. Use him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains there. I will tell you which mountain.”

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar [55] to the Lord. Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals, [56] and Noah burned them on the altar as a gift to God.

Exodus 18:12

Jethro got some sacrifices [122] and offerings to honor God. Then Aaron and all the elders (leaders) of Israel came to eat with Moses’ father-in-law Jethro. They all ate together there with God.

Leviticus 1:1

The Lord God called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent. [1] The Lord said,

Numbers 23:12

But Balaam answered, “I must say the things that the Lord tells me to say.”

Numbers 23:15

So Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by this altar. [295] I will go meet with God over at that place.”

Numbers 23:2

Balak did the thing that Balaam asked. Then Balak and Balaam killed a ram and a bull on each of the altars.

Numbers 23:26

Balaam answered, “I told you before that I can only say the things that the Lord tells me to say.”

Numbers 23:4

God came to Balaam at that place. And Balaam said, “I have prepared seven altars. [290] And I have killed a bull and a ram as a sacrifice on each altar.”

Numbers 24:1

Balaam saw that the Lord wanted to bless Israel. So Balaam did not try to change that by using any kind of magic. But Balaam turned and looked toward the desert.

Matthew 4:8

Then the devil led Jesus to the top of a very high mountain. The devil showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, and all the great things that are in those kingdoms.

Joshua 24:10

But I, the Lord, refused to listen to Balaam. So Balaam asked for good things to happen to you! He blessed you many times. I saved you and brought you out of trouble.