Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

Balaam told Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare here for me seven bulls and seven rams."

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams."

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

The Emphasized Bible

Then said Balaam unto Balak: Build me here seven altars, - and prepare me here, seven bullocks and seven rams.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

Youngs 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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּלעם 
Bil`am 
Usage: 61

בּלק 
Balaq 
Usage: 43

בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

me here seven
שׁבעה שׁבע 
Sheba` 
שׁבעה שׁבע 
Sheba` 
Usage: 395
Usage: 395

מזבּח 
Mizbeach 
Usage: 401

פּר פּר 
Par 
Usage: 133

and seven
שׁבעה שׁבע 
Sheba` 
Usage: 395

References

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Balaam's Oracles

1 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken. And Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

Cross References

Numbers 23:29

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

Exodus 20:24

An altar of earth thou shall make to me, and shall sacrifice on it thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to thee and I will bless thee.

Exodus 27:1-8

And thou shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad (the altar shall be foursquare), and the height of it shall be three cubits.

Numbers 29:32

And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish,

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

2 Kings 18:22

But if ye say to me, We trust in LORD our God, is that not he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

1 Chronicles 15:26

And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of LORD, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21

And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-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

Job 42:8

Now therefore, take to you 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 I will accept, that I not deal with you after your fol

Psalm 50:8-9

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Isaiah 1:11-15

What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Ezekiel 45:23

And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt-offering to LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days, and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! Because they went in the way of Cain, and rushed to the error of Balaam's reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

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