Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
Numbers 23:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Bil`am said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. He went to a bare height. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever He shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height. American Standard Version (1901) And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height. Common English Bible Balaam said to Balak, “Stay by your entirely burned offering. I will go and perhaps the LORD will grant me an appearance and speak. Whatever he shows me, I will tell you.” Then he went off to a high outlook. Catholic Public Domain Version And Balaam said to Balak: "Stand for a little while next to your holocaust, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet with me. And whatever he will command, I shall speak to you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt-offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee. |
Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
He said, *Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Yitzchak, and go into the land of Moriyah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.*
Noach built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Yitro, Moshe' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aharon came with all of the elders of Yisra'el, to eat bread with Moshe' father-in-law before God.
The LORD called to Moshe, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
He answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?
He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.
Balak did as Bil`am had spoken; and Balak and Bil`am offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
But Bil`am answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?
God met Bil`am: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
When Bil`am saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Yisra'el, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.
but I would not listen to Bil`am; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.