Numbers 23:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 23:29 : 29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.
  • Num 29:32 : 32 And on the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 And Samuel said, Does the LORD have 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 listen than the fat of rams.
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God, is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
  • 1 Chr 15:26 : 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bulls and seven rams.
  • 2 Chr 29:21 : 21 And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, 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 for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering, and My servant Job shall pray for you. For I will accept him, lest I deal with you according to your foolishness, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before Me. 9 I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your 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 to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.
  • Ezek 45:23 : 23 And for 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 to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 An altar of earth you shall make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record My name, I will come to you, and I will bless you.
  • Exod 27:1-8 : 1 And you shall make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar shall be square, and the height shall be three cubits. 2 And you shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze. 3 And you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its forks, and its firepans; all its vessels you shall make of bronze. 4 And you shall make for it a grate, a network of bronze; and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners. 5 And you shall put it under the edge of the altar beneath, so that the net may be halfway up the altar. 6 And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze. 7 And the poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar to carry it. 8 You shall make it hollow with boards; as it was shown to you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

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  • Num 23:25-30
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    97%

    25And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

    26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you, All that the LORD speaks, I must do?

    27And Balak said to Balaam, Come, please, I will bring you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.

    28And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks toward Jeshimon.

    29And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.

    30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

  • Num 23:2-7
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    2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

    3And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me, I will tell you. And he went to a high place.

    4And God met Balaam; and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

    5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.

    6And he returned to him, and behold, he stood by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

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

  • Num 23:11-18
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    11And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them abundantly.

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

    13And Balak said to him, Come, please, with me to another place from where you can see them; you shall see only the utmost part of them and shall not see them all, and curse them for me from there.

    14And he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

    15And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.

    16And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to 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 to him, What has the LORD spoken?

    18And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor:

  • Num 22:39-41
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    39And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kirjathhuzoth.

    40And Balak offered oxen and sheep and sent for Balaam and the princes that were with him.

    41And it happened on the next day, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that from there he might see the furthest part of the people.

  • Num 22:7-10
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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 to Balaam and spoke to him the words of Balak.

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

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

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

  • Num 24:12-13
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    12And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,

    13If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak?

  • Num 22:17-18
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    17For I will promote you to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me: come therefore, I pray you, curse this people for me.

    18And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.

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

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

  • Josh 24:9
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    9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

  • Num 7:27
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    27One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 7:81
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    81One young bull, 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 to Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

    36And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab, which is on the border of Arnon, which is at the extreme boundary.

    37And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?

  • Num 22:5
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    5He sent messengers therefore to 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, Look, a people has come out of Egypt; see, they cover the face of the earth, and they dwell opposite me.

  • Num 24:10
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    10And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

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

  • Num 7:33
    72%

    33One young bull, 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 to Balak and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.

    15And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

  • Num 7:15
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    15One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 22:2
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    2And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

  • Num 7:39
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    39One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 7:51
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    51One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

  • Num 7:57
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    57One young bull, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: