Numbers 23:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Num 23:29 : 29 Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
  • Num 29:32 : 32 On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
  • 1 Chr 15:26 : 26 It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
  • 2 Chr 29:21 : 21 They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
  • Ps 50:8-9 : 8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. 9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, But the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male 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; New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts; They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
  • Ezek 45:23 : 23 The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin-offering.
  • Matt 23:13 : 13 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.
  • Exod 20:24 : 24 You shall make an altar of earth for me, and 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 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits. 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass. 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass. 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four brazen rings in its four corners. 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. 8 Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 23:25-30
    6 verses
    97%

    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.

    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 23:2-7
    6 verses
    91%

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

    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.

    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 me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.

  • Num 23:11-18
    8 verses
    86%

    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.

    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 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?

    18He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:

  • Num 22:39-41
    3 verses
    82%

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

    40Balak sacrificed oxen 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 22:7-10
    4 verses
    77%

    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: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.

    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 24:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    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 22:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Num 7:21
    74%

    21one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 22:20
    73%

    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.

  • Josh 24:9
    73%

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

  • Num 7:27
    73%

    27one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 7:81
    73%

    81one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 22:35-37
    3 verses
    73%

    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?

  • Num 22:5
    73%

    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 come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.

  • Num 24:10
    73%

    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.

  • Num 24:1
    72%

    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.

  • Num 7:33
    72%

    33one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 22:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Num 7:15
    72%

    15one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 22:2
    72%

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

  • Num 7:39
    72%

    39one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 7:51
    72%

    51one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 7:57
    72%

    57one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;