Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
even as the broad valleys and as gardens by the river's side, as the tents which the LORD hath pitched and as cypress trees upon the water.
New American Standard Bible
Like gardens beside the river,
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King James Version
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Holman Bible
like gardens beside a stream,
like aloes the Lord has planted,
like cedars beside the water.
International Standard Version
They're spread out like valleys, like gardens along river banks, like aloe planted by the LORD, or like cedars beside water.
A Conservative Version
As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the river-side, as aloes which LORD has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
American Standard Version
As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.
Amplified
“Like valleys that stretch out,
Like gardens beside the river,
Like aloes planted by the Lord,
Like cedars beside the waters.
Bible in Basic English
They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.
Darby Translation
Like valleys are they spread forth, like gardens by the river side, Like aloe-trees which Jehovah hath planted, like cedars beside the waters.
Julia Smith Translation
As valleys extended, as a garden by the river, as tents Jehovah pitched, as cedars by the waters.
King James 2000
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as aloes which the LORD has planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They are spread out like valleys, like gardens on a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars at [the] waters.
Modern King James verseion
They are spread forth like the valleys, like gardens by the river's side, like the trees of aloes which Jehovah has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.
NET Bible
They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river's side, like aloes that the Lord has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.
New Heart English Bible
As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which the LORD has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
The Emphasized Bible
Like ravines extended, Like gardens by a river, - Like aloe-trees Yahweh hath planted, Like cedars by waters:
Webster
As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign-aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar-trees beside the waters.
World English Bible
As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
Youngs Literal Translation
As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;
Themes
Cedars » Illustrative of » Beauty and glory of israel
Cedars » Banks of rivers favorable to the growth of
Gardens » Often made by the banks of rivers
Lign-aloe » A tree, not identified by naturalists
Prophecy » Gift of, sometimes possessed by unconverted men
Rivers » Gardens often made beside
Tent » By the people of israel
Trees » Illustrative » (good and fruitful,) of saints
Trees » Varieties » Lign-aloes
Valleys » Illustrative » (fruitful and well watered,) of the tents of israel
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 24:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Balaam Continues To Utter Oracles
5 How goodly are the tents of Jacob, and thine habitations Israel; 6 even as the broad valleys and as gardens by the river's side, as the tents which the LORD hath pitched and as cypress trees upon the water. 7 The water shall flow out of his bucket and his seed shall be many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag; and his kingdom shall be exalted.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf, also, shall not wither; and, look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.
Psalm 104:16
The trees of the LORD also are full of sap, even the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted,
Genesis 2:8-10
The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set man whom he had formed.
Genesis 13:10
Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.
Psalm 45:8
All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia, when thou comest out of thine ivory palaces in thy beautiful glory.
Psalm 92:12-14
The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Song of Songs 4:12-15
Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.
Song of Songs 6:11
I went down into the nut garden, to see what grew by the brooks, to look if the vineyard flourished, and if the pomegranates were shot forth.
Isaiah 41:19
I plant in the waste ground trees of Cedar, Box, Mire and Olives. And in the dry I set Fir trees, Elms, and Hawthorns together.
Isaiah 58:11
The LORD shall ever be thy guide, and satisfy the desire of thine heart, and fill thy bones with marrow. Thou shalt be like a fresh watered garden, and like the fountain of water, that never leaveth running.
Jeremiah 17:18
Let them that persecute me be confounded, and let not me be confounded. Let their hearts fail them, and not mine heart fail. Bring upon them an evil day, and bruise them again and again.
Jeremiah 31:12
And they shall come, and rejoice upon the hill of Zion, and shall have plenteousness of goods, which the LORD shall give them: Namely, wheat, wine, oil, young sheep and calves. And their conscience shall be as a well-watered garden, for they shall no more be hungry.
Ezekiel 31:3-4
Behold, Assyria was like a Cedar tree upon the mount of Lebanon, with fair branches: so thick, that he gave shadows, and shot out very high. His top reached into the clouds.
Ezekiel 47:12
By this river upon both the sides of the shore, there shall grow all manner of fruitful trees, whose leaves shall not fall off, neither shall their fruit perish: but ever be ripe at their months, for their water runneth out of the Sanctuary. His fruit is good to eat, and his leaf profitable for medicine.
Joel 3:18
And at that day the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall run with water. And a fountain shall go out of the house of the LORD and water the river of Shittim.