World English Bible
Numbers 23:1
“Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
Numbers 23:1 in the King James Version
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.Read Numbers 23:1 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Numbers 23
Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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.
Cross references for Numbers 23:1
- Numbers 23:29
Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
- Jude 1:11
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.
- 1 Chronicles 15:26
It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
- Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Exodus 20:24
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 cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
- 2 Kings 18:22
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?
- Job 42:8
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 f...
- Exodus 27:1-8
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. You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; an...
- 1 Samuel 15:22
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.
- Numbers 29:32
On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;
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