Numbers 23:14 “So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where…”

Numbers 23:14

So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And he brought him into Sede-sophim to the top of Pisgah, and built seuen altars, and offred a bullocke, and a ramme on euery altar.

Darby Translation

And he took him to the watchmen's field, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on [each] altar.

Young's Literal Translation

and he taketh him [to] the field of Zophim, unto the top of Pisgah, and buildeth seven altars, and offereth a bullock and a ram on the altar.

Bible in Basic English

So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

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Cross references

“Pisgah”

Numbers 21:20 Deuteronomy 3:27 Deuteronomy 4:49 Deuteronomy 34:1

Numbers 21:20 · BSB

and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

Deuteronomy 3:27 · BSB

Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 4:49 · BSB

including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 34:1 · BSB

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

“built seven”

Numbers 23:29 Isaiah 46:6 Hosea 12:11 Numbers 23:1 Numbers 23:2 Isaiah 1:10

Numbers 23:29 · BSB

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

Isaiah 46:6 · BSB

They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

Hosea 12:11 · BSB

Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Numbers 23:1 · BSB

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

Numbers 23:2 · BSB

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

Isaiah 1:10 · BSB

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

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

In context

13Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”

15Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”

Read Numbers 23