But if you tell me, We trust in the LORD our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Chizkiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar in Yerushalayim?
Numbers 23:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 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. |
But if you tell me, We trust in the LORD our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Chizkiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yehudah and to Yerushalayim, You shall worship before this altar in Yerushalayim?
It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Yehudah. He commanded the Kohanim the sons of Aharon to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Iyov, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Iyov shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Iyov has.*
You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your shalom offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
It happened in the morning, that Balak took Bil`am, and brought him up into the high places of Ba`al; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
Balak did as Bil`am had spoken; and Balak and Bil`am offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
Balak did as Bil`am had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Kayin, and ran riotously in the error of Bil`am for hire, and perished in Korach's rebellion.
Shemu'el said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.