Numbers 23:4 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 23:4

2 And Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam ^aoffered a bull and a ram on each altar.

3 Then Balaam said to Balak, ^a“Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come ^bto meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.

4 ^aAnd God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

5 Then the Lord ^aput a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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

7 And he ^atook up his oracle and said:
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
^b‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, ^cdenounce Israel!’

8 “How^a shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

Verse Comparison: Numbers 23:4

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American Standard Version
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Amplified® Bible
God met Balaam, who said to Him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

Contemporary English Version
When God appeared to him, Balaam said, "I have built seven altars and have sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one."

Darby English Version
And God met Balaam; and [Balaam] said to him, I have disposed seven altars, and have offered up a bullock and a ram upon [each] altar.

Good News Bible
and God met him. Balaam said to him, "I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each."

King James Version
And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

New American Standard Bible
Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, "I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar."

New International Version
God met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."

New King James Version
And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, "I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar."

Revised Standard Version
And God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered upon each altar a bull and a ram."

Young's Literal Translation
And God cometh unto Balaam, and he saith unto Him, `The seven altars I have arranged, and I offer a bullock and a ram on the altar;'

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