Numbers 23:3

World English Bible (2000)

Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

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  • Num 23:15 : 15 He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."
  • Num 24:1 : 1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
  • Gen 8:20 : 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • Gen 22:2 : 2 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
  • Gen 22:7-8 : 7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
  • Gen 22:13 : 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
  • Exod 18:12 : 12 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all of the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
  • Lev 1:1 : 1 Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
  • Num 22:8-9 : 8 He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. 9 God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"
  • Num 22:31-35 : 31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. 32 The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me: 33 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive." 34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again." 35 The angel of Yahweh 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.

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  • Num 23:11-18
    8 verses
    90%

    11Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

    12He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

    13Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there."

    14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

    15He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."

    16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."

    17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

    18He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

  • Num 23:4-7
    4 verses
    85%

    4God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."

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

    6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

    7He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

  • Num 23:25-30
    6 verses
    84%

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

    26But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"

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

    28Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

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

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

  • Num 23:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

    2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

  • Num 22:34-41
    8 verses
    82%

    34Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."

    35The angel of Yahweh 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.

    36When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

    37Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"

    38Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak."

    39Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.

    40Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.

    41It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

  • Num 22:16-21
    6 verses
    82%

    16They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

    17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.'"

    18Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

    19Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."

    20God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

    21Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

  • Num 22:7-10
    4 verses
    80%

    7The 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.

    8He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

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

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

  • Num 24:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

    2Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

    3He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Num 24:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

    13'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says'?

    14Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days."

  • Num 22:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."

    13Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you."

    14The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

  • Num 24:25
    78%

    25Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

  • Num 22:5
    77%

    5He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

  • Num 22:31
    74%

    31Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.