Numbers 23:1 - Easy To Read Version Balaam said, “Build seven altars [288] here. And prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition AND BALAAM said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. American Standard Version (1901) And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. Common English Bible Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams. |
Maybe you will say, “We trust the Lord our God.” But I know that Hezekiah took away the high places [227] and altars [228] where people worshiped the Lord. And Hezekiah told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship only in front of the altar here in Jerusalem.”
God helped the Levites {\cf2\super [172]} that carried the Box of the Agreement. They sacrificed {\cf2\super [173]} seven bulls and seven rams.
They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven young male goats. These animals were for a sin offering for the kingdom of Judah, for the Holy Place {\cf2\super [347]} to make it clean, and for the people of Judah. King Hezekiah commanded the priests that were descendants {\cf2\super [348]} of Aaron to offer those animals on the Lord’s altar. {\cf2\super [349]}
So now Eliphaz, get seven bulls and seven rams. Take them to my servant Job. Kill them and offer them as a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will answer his prayer. Then I won’t give you the punishment that you deserve. You should be punished because you were very foolish. You didn’t say right things about me. But my servant Job said right things about me.”
“Make a special altar [130] for me. Use dirt to make this altar. Offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on this altar as a sacrifice [131] to me. Use your sheep and your cattle to do this. Do this in every place where I tell you to remember me. Then I will come and bless you.
The Lord hates the offerings that evil people give. But the Lord is happy to hear a good person’s prayers.
So they come to you like they are my people. They sit in front of you like they are my people. They hear your words. But they won’t do the things you say. They only want to do what feels good. They only want to cheat people and make more money.
During the seven days of the feast the ruler will offer seven bulls and seven rams {\cf2\super [442]} that have nothing wrong with them. They will be burnt offerings to the Lord. The ruler will offer one bull on every day of the seven days of the festival. And he will offer a male goat every day for a sin offering.
The next morning Balak took Balaam to the town of Bamoth Baal. From there, they could see part of the Israelite camp.
Balak did the thing that Balaam asked. Then Balak and Balaam killed a ram and a bull on each of the altars.
Balaam said, “Build seven altars [298] here. Then prepare seven bulls and seven rams for the altars.”
Balak did the thing that Balaam asked. Balak offered the bulls and rams on the altars.
“On the seventh day {of this holiday}, you must offer 7 bulls, 2 rams, and 14 lambs that are one year old. There must be nothing wrong with them.
“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and Pharisees. {\cf2\super [333]} You are hypocrites. {\cf2\super [334]} You close the way for people to enter the kingdom of heaven. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop the people that are trying to enter.
But Samuel answered, “Which pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices [138] or obeying the Lord’s command? It is better to obey God than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to God than to offer the fat from rams.