Numbers 23:22

Christian Standard Bible ®

God brought them out of Egypt;he is like the horns of a wild ox for them.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

Update Bible Version
God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

English Revised Version
God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

New Century Version
God brought them out of Egypt; they are as strong as a wild ox.

New English Translation
God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.

Webster's Bible Translation
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn.

World English Bible
God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

Amplified Bible
"God brought them out of Egypt; They have the strength of a wild ox.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord God ledde hym out of Egipt, whos strengthe is lijk an vnicorn;

Young's Literal Translation
God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;

Berean Standard Bible
God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.

Contemporary English Version
With the strength of a wild ox, God led Israel out of Egypt.

American Standard Version
God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

Bible in Basic English
It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God brought them out of Egypt, they haue strength as an Unicorne.

Complete Jewish Bible
"God, who brought them out of Egypt, gives them the strength of a wild ox;

Darby Translation
God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.

Easy-to-Read Version
God brought them out of Egypt. They are as strong as a wild ox.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
God who brought them forth out of Egypt is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.

King James Version (1611)
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an Unicorne.

New Life Bible
God brings them out of Egypt. He is for them like the horns of the wild bull.

New Revised Standard
God, who brings them out of Egypt, is like the horns of a wild ox for them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
GOD having brought them forth out of Egypt, The very horns of the buffalo, are his:

Geneva Bible (1587)
God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an vnicorne.

George Lamsa Translation
God brought them out of Egypt with his might and excellency.

Good News Translation
God has brought them out of Egypt; He fights for them like a wild ox.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

Revised Standard Version
God brings them out of Egypt; they have as it were the horns of the wild ox.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.

Hebrew Names Version
God brings them forth out of Mitzrayim; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.

King James Version
God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Lexham English Bible
God, who brings them out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for them.

Literal Translation
God who brought them out of Egypt is for him like the lofty horns of the wild ox.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
God hath brought the out of Egipte, his stregth is as of an Vnicorne.

New American Standard Bible
"God brings them out of Egypt, He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

New King James Version
God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox.

New Living Translation
God brought them out of Egypt; for them he is as strong as a wild ox.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"God brings them out of Egypt, He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

Legacy Standard Bible
God brings them out of Egypt,He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

Contextual Overview

¹³Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.” ¹⁴So Balak took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah, built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. ¹⁵Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.” ¹⁶The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then he said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.” ¹⁷So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?” ¹⁸Balaam proclaimed his poem: ¹⁹God is not a man, that he might lie,or a son of man, that he might change his mind.Does he speak and not act,or promise and not fulfill? ²⁰I have indeed received a command to bless;since he has blessed, I cannot change it. ²¹He considers no disaster for Jacob;he sees no trouble for Israel.The Lord their God is with them,and there is rejoicing over the King among them. ²²God brought them out of Egypt;he is like the horns of a wild ox for them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Numbers 22:5, Numbers 24:8, Exodus 9:16, Exodus 14:18, Exodus 20:2, Psalms 68:35

the strength: Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:10, Job 39:11, Psalms 22:21

unicorn: The reaim, most probably denotes the rhinoceros, so called from the horn on its nose. In size he is only exceeded by the elephant; and in strength and power inferior to none. He is at least twelve feet in length, from the snout to the tail; six or seven feet in height; and the circumference of the body is nearly equal to his length. He is particularly distinguished from all other animals by the remarkable and offensive weapon he carries on his nose; which is very hard horn, solid throughout, directed forward. He principally feeds upon large succulent plants, prickly shrubs, and branches; and delights in marshy places.

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:22 - abode Esther 4:14 - then shall Job 39:9 - the Psalms 29:6 - unicorn Psalms 74:12 - God Psalms 77:10 - the years Psalms 92:10 - an unicorn Isaiah 34:7 - unicorns

Gill's Notes on the Bible

God brought them out of Egypt,.... With a mighty hand and stretched out arm, and he will conduct them through the wilderness, and bring them safe to Canaan's land; he that brought them from thence will not suffer them to perish by any means; it is in vain to attempt to curse a people that is in such hands, and for whom he has done such great things: Jarchi thinks this stands opposed to what Balak had said,

Numbers 22:5, thou sayest, "lo, a people is come out of Egypt";

"they did not come out of themselves, but God brought them:''

he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn; that is, not God, but the people he brought out of Egypt, being a mighty people, able to push their enemies and subdue them, being numerous and strong, especially as strengthened by the mighty God of Jacob; and therefore their strength is expressed by the strength of this creature; for be it what it will, whether the rhinoceros or the wild ox, or one kind of goats, as Bochart l thinks; whatever is meant by the term here must be a strong creature, see Deuteronomy 33:17 and great is the strength of the spiritual Israel of God, which they have from him to exercise grace, perform duty, withstand and overcome all their spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world.

l Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 3. c. 27. col. 965.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An unicorn - A wild bull, the now extinct Aurochs, formidable for its size, strength, speed, and ferocity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 23:22. The strength of a unicorn. — ראם reem and ראים reim. It is generally allowed that there is no such beast in nature as the unicorn; i. e., a creature of the horse kind, with one long rich curled horn in the forehead. The creature painted from fancy is represented as one of the supporters of the royal arms of Great Britain. It is difficult to say what kind of beast is intended by the original word. The Septuagint translate the word μονοκερως, the unicorn, or one-horned animal; the Vulgate, sometimes, unicornus; and in the text rhinocerotis, by which the rhinoceros, a creature which has its name from the horn on its nose, is supposed to be meant. That no single-horned animal can be intended by the reem of Moses, is sufficiently evident from this, that Moses, speaking of Joseph, says, "he has the HORNS of A unicorn," or reem, where the horns are spoken of in the plural, the animal in the singular. The creature referred to is either the rhinoceros, some varieties of which have two horns on the nose, or the wild bull, urus, or buffalo; though some think the beast intended is a species of goat; but the rhinoceros seems the most likely. There is literally a monoceros, or unicorn, with one large curled ivory horn growing horizontally out of his snout; but this is not a land animal, it is the modiodan or nurwal, a marine animal of the whale kind, a horn of which is now before me, measuring seven feet four inches; but I believe the rhinoceros is that intended by the sacred writers.