Numbers 23:1

Modern English Version

And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven oxen and seven rams.”

Cross References

2 Kings 18:22

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

1 Chronicles 15:26

Since God helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21

And he brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, sanctuary, and Judah. Then he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them up on the altar of the Lord.

Job 42:8

And now, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job will pray for you. For him I will accept, lest I deal with you according to your folly, in that you have not spoken of Me the thing which is right like My servant Job.”

Exodus 20:24

“You shall make an altar of earth for Me and on it you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen. In every place where I cause My name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them. They do the lustful desires in their mouth, and their heart goes after their covetousness.

Ezekiel 45:23

For seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days, and a male of the goats daily as a sin offering.

Numbers 22:41

On the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw the extent of the people.

Numbers 23:2

Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

Numbers 23:29

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

Numbers 23:30

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

Numbers 29:32

On the seventh day present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without blemish,

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily after the error of Balaam for a reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said, “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, a listening ear than the fat of rams.