But if you say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
Numbers 23:1 - King James 2000 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen 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 say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
An altar of earth you shall make for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto you, and I will bless you.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
And it came to pass the next day, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that from there he might see the extent of the people.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
And Samuel 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 hearken than the fat of rams.