Numbers 23:1 “Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepar…”

Numbers 23:1

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

World English Bible

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

American Standard Version

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Balaam sayd vnto Balak, Builde me here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullockes, and seuen rammes.

Darby Translation

And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Young's Literal Translation

And Balaam saith unto Balak, 'Build for me in this [place] seven altars, and make ready for me in this [place] seven bullocks and seven rams.'

Bible in Basic English

And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.

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Cross references

“Build me”

Numbers 23:29 Jude 1:11 Ezekiel 33:31

Numbers 23:29 · BSB

Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

Jude 1:11 · BSB

Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Ezekiel 33:31 · BSB

So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.

“seven altars”

Exodus 20:24 Exodus 27:1–8 1 Samuel 15:22 2 Kings 18:22 Proverbs 15:8 Isaiah 1:11–15

Exodus 20:24 · BSB

You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless…

Exodus 27:1–8 · BSB

“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

1 Samuel 15:22 · BSB

But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

2 Kings 18:22 · BSB

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

Proverbs 15:8 · BSB

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Isaiah 1:11–15 · BSB

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

“seven oxen”

Numbers 29:32 1 Chronicles 15:26 2 Chronicles 29:21 Job 42:8 Ezekiel 45:23

Numbers 29:32 · BSB

On the seventh day you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,

1 Chronicles 15:26 · BSB

And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21 · BSB

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on…

Job 42:8 · BSB

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your fo…

Ezekiel 45:23 · BSB

Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.

Also

Matthew 23:13

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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