Numbers 23:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ And Bil‛am said to Balaq, “Build seven slaughter-places for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AND BALAAM said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Common English Bible

¹ Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

Numbers 23:1 Cross References

2 Kings 18:22

“But when you say to me, ‘We trust in יהוה our Elohim,’ is it not He whose high places and whose slaughter-places Ḥizqiyahu has taken away, and said to Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim, ‘Bow yourselves before this slaughter-place in Yerushalayim’?” ’

1 Chronicles 15:26

And it came to be, when Elohim helped the Lĕwites who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה, that they slaughtered seven bulls and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21

And they brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the reign, for the set-apart place, and for Yehuḏah. And he said to the priests, the sons of Aharon, to offer them on the slaughter-place of יהוה.

Job 42:8

And now, take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Iyoḇ, and offer up an ascending offering for yourselves. And let My servant Iyoḇ pray for you – for I accept him – lest I punish you; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ.”

Exodus 20:24

‘Make a slaughter-place of earth for Me, and you shall slaughter on it your ascending offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause My Name to be remembered I shall come to you and bless you.

Proverbs 15:8

The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.

Ezekiel 33:31

“And they come to you as people do, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love – their hearts pursue their greedy gain.

Ezekiel 45:23

“And during the seven days of the festival he prepares an ascending offering to יהוה, seven bulls and seven rams, perfect ones, daily for seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

Numbers 22:41

And it came to be in the morning, that Balaq took Bil‛am and brought him up to the high places of Ba‛al, and from there he saw the extremity of the camp.

Numbers 23:2

And Balaq did as Bil‛am had spoken, and Balaq and Bil‛am offered a bull and a ram on each slaughter-place.

Numbers 23:29

And Bil‛am said to Balaq, “Build seven slaughter-places for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

Numbers 23:30

And Balaq did as Bil‛am had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each slaughter-place.

Numbers 29:32

Then on the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, perfect ones,

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! Because they have gone in the way of Qayin, and gave themselves to the delusion of Bil‛am for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Qoraḥ.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Shemu’ĕl said, “Does יהוה delight in ascending offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of יהוה? Look, to obey is better than a slaughtering, to heed is better than the fat of rams.