Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Balaam told Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare here for me seven bulls 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.”
A Conservative Version
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks 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.'
Themes
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of balaam
Seven » Miscellany of sevens » Rams and bullocks to the number of, required in sarifices
Interlinear
Banah
Sheba`
שׁבעה שׁבע
Sheba`
seven, seventh, seventeen , seven times, seventeenth , seventeenth, sevens , seven men, sevenfold, seventeen , seventeen
Usage: 395
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 23:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Balaam's Oracles
1 Balaam told Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare here for me seven bulls and seven rams." 2 So Balak did just as Balaam instructed. Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Cross References
Numbers 23:29
Balaam told Balak, "Build seven altars for me right here. Then prepare seven bulls and seven rams."
Exodus 20:24
You are to make an altar of earth for me, and you are to sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep, and your cattle. Everywhere I cause my name to be remembered, I'll come to you and bless you.
Exodus 27:1-8
"You are to make the altar of acacia wood. It is to be five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar is to be a square, and it is to be three cubits high.
Numbers 29:32
"On the seventh day, you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,
1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, "Does the LORD delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the LORD? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.
2 Kings 18:22
""Of course, you might tell me, "We rely on the LORD our God!" But isn't it he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has demolished, all the while telling Jerusalem, "You're to worship in front of this altar in Jerusalem?"'
1 Chronicles 15:26
As God helped the descendants of Levi who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
2 Chronicles 29:21
where they brought seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering on behalf of the kingdom, the Holy Place, and Judah. He ordered that the priests, as descendants of Aaron, place the offerings on the LORD's altar.
Job 42:8
So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I'll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn't speak about me correctly as did my servant Job."
Psalm 50:8-9
I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices; indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:11-15
"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.
Ezekiel 33:31
Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.
Ezekiel 45:23
Each day during the seven days of the festival, he is to provide a burnt offering to the LORD, consisting of seven bulls and seven rams without defect, offered each day throughout the seven days, along with a male goat offered each day as a sin offering.
Matthew 23:13
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.
Jude 1:11
11How terrible it will be for them! For they lived like Cain did , rushed headlong into Balaam's error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves, as happened in Korah's rebellion.