Numbers 23:29

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Then Balaam said to Balak,“Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”

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  • Num 23:1-2 : 1 Balaam Blesses Israel Balaam said to Balak,“Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” 2 So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

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  • Num 23:1-7
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    1Balaam Blesses Israel Balaam said to Balak,“Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

    2So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

    3Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went to a deserted height.

    4Then God met Balaam, who said to him,“I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

    5Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

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

    7Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

  • 30So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

  • Num 23:11-18
    8 verses
    86%

    11Balaam Relocates Then Balak said to Balaam,“What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”

    12Balaam replied,“Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?”

    13Balak said to him,“Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”

    14So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

    15And Balaam said to Balak,“Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.”

    16Then the LORD met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”

    17When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him,“What has the LORD spoken?”

    18Balaam Prophesies Again Balaam uttered his oracle, and said,“Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:

  • Num 22:39-41
    3 verses
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    39So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

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

    41Then on the next morning Balak took Balaam, and brought him up to Bamoth Baal. From there he saw the extent of the nation.

  • Num 23:25-28
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    25Balaam Relocates Yet Again Balak said to Balaam,“Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

    26But Balaam replied to Balak,“Did I not tell you,‘All that the LORD speaks, I must do’?”

    27Balak said to Balaam,“Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”

    28So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wastelands.

  • Num 22:7-8
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    7So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported to him the words of Balak.

    8He replied to them,“Stay here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the LORD may speak to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

  • 12Balaam said to Balak,“Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,

  • 10Balaam said to God,“Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,

  • Num 22:17-20
    4 verses
    73%

    17For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”

    18Balaam replied to the servants of Balak,“Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the LORD my God to do less or more.

    19Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the LORD might say to me.”

    20God came to Balaam that night, and said to him,“If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”

  • 9Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, launched an attack against Israel. He summoned Balaam son of Beor to call down judgment on you.

  • 29“‘On the sixth day you must offer eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

  • 10Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam,“I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless them these three times!

  • 21They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. The king told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the LORD.

  • 23“‘On the fourth day you must offer ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

  • 32“‘On the seventh day you must offer seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

  • 15Balaam Accompanies the Moabite Princes Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

  • 5And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates River in the land of Amaw, to summon him, saying,“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me.

  • 19“‘But you must offer to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

  • 36But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,

  • 2You must offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old without blemish.

  • 27one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 22:35-37
    3 verses
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    35But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam,“Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

    36Balaam Meets Balak When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.

    37Balak said to Balaam,“Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

  • 1Balaam Prophesies Yet Again When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go as at the other times to seek for omens, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

  • 26So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

  • 8But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish.

  • 21one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;