Numbers 23:1

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Kings 18:22

Or do you people say to me, “It is in the Lord our God we trust!”? Is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem, “Worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?’

1 Chronicles 15:26

While God helped the Levites to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21

Seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven he-goats were presented as a purification offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. Hezekiah ordered the sons of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

Job 42:8

So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves, and let my servant Job pray for you. To him I will show favor, and not punish your folly, for you have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.”

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth make for me, and sacrifice upon it your burnt offerings and communion sacrifices, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be invoked 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

My people come to you, gathering as a crowd and sitting in front of you to hear your words, but they will not act on them. Love songs are on their lips, but in their hearts they pursue dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 45:23

On each of the seven days of the feast he shall sacrifice, as a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, and as a purification offering he shall sacrifice one male goat each day.

Numbers 22:41

The next morning Balak took Balaam up on Bamoth-baal, and from there he could see some of the people.

Numbers 23:2

So Balak did as Balaam had ordered, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:29

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

Numbers 23:30

And Balak did as Balaam had ordered, offering a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 29:32

On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen unblemished yearling lambs,

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They followed the way of Cain, abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 Samuel 15:22

But Samuel said: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to the Lord’s command? Obedience is better than sacrifice, to listen, better than the fat of rams.