Numbers 23:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering. I will go and perhaps Adonai will meet me. Whatever message He shows me, I will tell you. Then he went to a barren height.

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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 lifted up his eyes and behold, there was a ram, just caught in the thick bushes by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Genesis 22:2

Then He said, “Take your son, your only son whom you love —Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains about which I will tell you.”

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to Adonai and he took of every clean domestic animal and of every clean flying creature and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Exodus 18:12

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, presented a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. Aaron also came along with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Leviticus 1:1

Now Adonai called to Moses and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying:

Numbers 23:12

But in response he said, “Mustn’t I speak whatever Adonai puts into my mouth?”

Numbers 23:15

“Stay here beside your offering,” he said to Balak, “while I am meeting over there.”

Numbers 23:2

So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:26

Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Haven’t I told you, ‘All that Adonai says, I must do?’

Numbers 23:4

God met with Balaam and he said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I offered a bull and a ram.”

Numbers 24:1

When Balaam realized that it was pleasing in the eyes of Adonai to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorceries as at the other times, but turned his face toward the wilderness.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil takes Him to a very high mountain and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Joshua 24:10

But I refused to listen to Balaam; instead, he had to keep blessing you. Thus I delivered you from his hand.