Numbers 22:34
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 displease you, I will get me back again.
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- Job 34:31-32 : 31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more. 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
- 1 Sam 15:24 : 24 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
- 2 Sam 12:13 : 13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
- 1 Sam 15:30 : 30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.
- 1 Sam 26:21 : 21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
- Ps 78:34 : 34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
- Prov 24:18 : 18 Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.
- Matt 27:4-5 : 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
- 1 Sam 24:17 : 17 He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil.
- 1 Chr 21:7 : 7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
- Exod 9:27 : 27 Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
- Exod 10:16-17 : 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death."
- Num 11:1 : 1 The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
- Num 14:40 : 40 They rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we have sinned.
- Num 22:12 : 12 God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.
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- Num 22:17-3317 verses81%
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 are come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.
21Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
22God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
23The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.
24Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.
26The angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she lay down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
28Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
29Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.
30The donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? was I ever wont to do so to you? and he said, No.
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.
32The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:
33and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain you, and saved her alive.
- Num 22:35-395 verses80%
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 was 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.
- Num 24:10-134 verses78%
10Balak'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.
11Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.
12Balaam said to Balak, Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,
13If 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; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?
- Num 23:25-273 verses77%
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; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
- Num 22:12-143 verses76%
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, Get you into your land; for Yahweh refuses to give me leave to go with you.
14The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses to come with us.
- Num 23:11-133 verses76%
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, from whence 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.
- Num 23:3-53 verses76%
3Balaam 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.
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.
- Num 23:15-173 verses76%
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 thus shall you speak.
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?
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25Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.
- Num 22:9-102 verses75%
9God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
10Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],
- Num 22:6-72 verses72%
6Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.