Numbers 23:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Num 23:29 : 29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
  • Num 29:32 : 32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
  • 1 Chr 15:26 : 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
  • 2 Chr 29:21 : 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 of the LORD.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 Therefore take unto you now 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 will I accept: lest I deal with you [after your] folly, in that ye have not spoken of me [the thing which is] right, like my servant Job.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he goats out of thy folds.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 ¶ The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them]. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, [but] their heart goeth after their covetousness.
  • Ezek 45:23 : 23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily [for] a sin offering.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 ¶ ‹But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in› [yourselves], ‹neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.›
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
  • Exod 27:1-8 : 1 ¶ And thou shalt make an altar [of] shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof [shall be] three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make [of] brass. 4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network [of] brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. 5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it. 8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make [it].

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  • Num 23:25-30
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    25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

    26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

    27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

    28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

    29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

    30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.

  • Num 23:2-7
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    2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.

    3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

    4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.

    5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

    6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

    7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

  • Num 23:11-18
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    11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether.

    12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

    13¶ And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

    14And 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.

    15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.

    16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

    17And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?

    18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

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    39And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjathhuzoth.

    40And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that [were] with him.

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    7And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

    8And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

    9And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men [are] these with thee?

    10And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, [saying],

  • Num 24:12-13
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    12And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

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  • Num 22:17-18
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    17For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

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  • Num 7:21
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    21One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 22:20
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    20And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, [and] go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

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    27One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 7:81
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    81One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 22:35-37
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    35And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

    36¶ And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which [is] in the border of Arnon, which [is] in the utmost coast.

    37And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

  • Num 22:5
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    5He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which [is] by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:

  • Num 24:10
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    10¶ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed [them] these three times.

  • Num 24:1
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    1¶ And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

  • Num 7:33
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    33One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 22:14-15
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    14And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

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    15One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

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    2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

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    39One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

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    57One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: