Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.
Numbers 23:14 - New International Version (Anglicised) So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he 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, |
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.
Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a ploughed field.
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Then Balak said to him, ‘Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.’
Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.’
Balaam said, ‘Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.’
Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan.
Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, opposite Jericho. There the Lord showed him the whole land – from Gilead to Dan,
and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.