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Numbers 23:3

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Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
He went to a bare height.

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Numbers 23:3 in other translations

And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.

Numbers 23:3 · American Standard Version

Numbers 23:3 in context

  1. 1Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
  2. 2Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
  3. 3Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
    He went to a bare height.
  4. 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.”
  5. 5Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”