Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales – they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.
Numbers 23:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So he took Balaam into the field of Zophim to the top of [Mount] Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. American Standard Version (1901) And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar. Common English Bible He took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah. He built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he had led him to a lofty place, on the top of mount Pisgah, Balaam built seven altars, and placing upon each a calf and a ram, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram, |
Those who pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales – they hire a goldsmith and he makes it into a god. Then they kneel and bow down to it.
Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like piles of rocks on the furrows of a field.
from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland. ,
Then Balak said to him, ‘Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.’
Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.’
Balaam told Balak, ‘Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.’
Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west, north, south, and east, and see it with your own eyes, for you will not cross the Jordan.
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho, and the Lord showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan,
and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.