Numbers 23:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Num 23:29 : 29 And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.
  • Num 29:32 : 32 And on the seventh day seven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
  • 1 Chr 15:26 : 26 And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.
  • 2 Chr 29:21 : 21 And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me. 9 I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.
  • Ezek 45:23 : 23 And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.
  • Exod 27:1-8 : 1 And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high. 2 Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass. 3 And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass. 4 And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles. 5 And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar. 6 And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass. 7 And put the rods through the rings at the two opposite sides of the altar, for lifting it. 8 The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

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  • Num 23:25-30
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    25 Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.

    26 But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?

    27 Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.

    28 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.

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

    30 And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

  • Num 23:2-7
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    2 And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.

    3 Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.

    4 And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

    5 And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

    6 So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.

    7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.

  • Num 23:11-18
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    86%

    11 Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.

    12 And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth?

    13 And Balak said to him, Come with me now into another place from which you will not be able to see them all, but only the outskirts of them; and you will send curses on them from there.

    14 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.

    15 Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.

    16 And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

    17 So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?

    18 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:

  • Num 22:39-41
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    39 And Balaam went with Balak to Kiriath-huzoth.

    40 And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.

    41 And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.

  • Num 22:7-10
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    7 So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.

    8 And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I will give you an answer after hearing what the Lord says; so the chiefs of Moab kept there with Balaam that night.

    9 And God came to Balaam and said, Who are these men with you?

    10 And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying,

  • Num 24:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me,

    13 Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say?

  • Num 22:17-18
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    17 For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people.

    18 But Balaam, in answer; said to the servants of Balak, Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to do anything more or less than the orders of the Lord my God.

  • Num 7:21
    74%

    21 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 22:20
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    20 And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.

  • Josh 24:9
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    9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:

  • Num 7:27
    73%

    27 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 7:81
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    81 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 22:35-37
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    35 And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men; but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with the chiefs of Balak.

    36 Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him.

    37 And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not send to you, requesting you with all my heart to come to me? why did you not come? am I not able to give you a place of honour?

  • Num 22:5
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    5 So he sent men to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pethor by the River in the land of the children of his people, saying to him, See, a people has come out of Egypt, covering all the face of the earth, and they have put up their tents opposite to me:

  • Num 24:10
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    10 Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

  • Num 24:1
    72%

    1 Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,

  • Num 7:33
    72%

    33 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 22:14-15
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    14 So the chiefs of Moab went back to Balak and said, Balaam will not come with us.

    15 So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.

  • Num 7:15
    72%

    15 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 22:2
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    2 Now Balak, the son of Zippor, saw what Israel had done to the Amorites.

  • Num 7:39
    72%

    39 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 7:51
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    51 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Num 7:57
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    57 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;