Numbers 24:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

the oracle of one who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down but with eyes uncovered:

Cross References

Genesis 14:18

And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.

Numbers 24:15

So he uttered his oracle, saying, “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,

Numbers 24:17

I see him but not now; I behold him but not near— a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the foreheads of Moab and the heads of all the Shethites.

Numbers 24:3

and he uttered his oracle, saying, “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is clear,

Numbers 24:4

the oracle of one who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down but with eyes uncovered:

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.