Numbers 23:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Kings 18:22

But if you say to me, ‘We rely on 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

And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the descendants of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

Job 42:8

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done.”

Exodus 20:24

You need make for me only an altar of earth and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your offerings of well-being, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name to be remembered 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 obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Ezekiel 45:23

And during the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a purification offering.

Numbers 22:41

On the next day Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he could see part of the people of Israel.

Numbers 23:2

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

Numbers 23:29

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

Numbers 23:30

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

Numbers 29:32

“On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the voice of the Lord? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams.