Numbers 23:29

Christian Standard Bible ®

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

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

Update Bible Version
And Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

English Revised Version
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

New Century Version
Balaam told Balak, "Build me seven altars here and prepare for me seven bulls and seven male sheep."

New English Translation
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams."

Webster's Bible Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

World English Bible
Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.

Amplified Bible
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams here."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Balaam seide to hym, Bilde here seuene auteris to me, and make redi so many caluys, and rammes of the same noumbre.

Young's Literal Translation
and Balaam saith unto Balak, `Build for me in this [place] seven altars, and make ready for me in this [place] seven bullocks and seven rams;'

Berean Standard Bible
"Build me seven altars here," Balaam said, "and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams."

Contemporary English Version
Balaam said, "Build seven altars here, then bring me seven bulls and seven rams."

American Standard Version
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Bible in Basic English
And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Balaam said vnto Balac: Make me here seuen aulters, and prepare me here seuen oxen, and seuen rammes.

Complete Jewish Bible
Bil‘am said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare me seven bulls and seven rams."

Darby Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Easy-to-Read Version
Balaam said, "Build seven altars here. Then prepare seven bulls and seven rams for the altars."

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'

King James Version (1611)
And Balaam saide vnto Balak, Build mee here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes.

New Life Bible
Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here. And make ready seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

New Revised Standard
Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here, seven altars, - and prepare me here, seven bullocks and seven rams.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Balaam sayde vnto Balak, Make me here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes.

George Lamsa Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars and prepare me seven bullocks and seven rams.

Good News Translation
Balaam said to him, "Build seven altars for me here and bring me seven bulls and seven rams."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

Revised Standard Version
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and provide for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Balaam said to Balac, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.

Hebrew Names Version
Bil`am said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.

King James Version
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Lexham English Bible
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams."

Literal Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Balaam sayde vnto Balac: Buylde me here seuen altares, and prouyde me seuen bullockes and seuen rammes.

THE MESSAGE
Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for sacrifice."

New American Standard Bible
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

New King James Version
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

New Living Translation
Balaam again told Balak, "Build me seven altars, and prepare seven young bulls and seven rams for me to sacrifice."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

Legacy Standard Bible
And Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars for me here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here."

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

Numbers 23:1, Numbers 23:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:17 - and I will do Numbers 23:14 - built seven 1 Chronicles 15:26 - bullocks 2 Chronicles 29:21 - seven Job 42:8 - seven bullocks Micah 6:6 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balaam said unto Balak,.... Being willing to try again what could be done, and to gratify the king, and especially to get the wages of unrighteousness, if possible, which he dearly loved, as the apostle says, 2 Peter 2:15

build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams; which had been done in two places before, Numbers 23:1 the same sort of creatures, and the same number here as there, and these only clean creatures, such as were used in sacrifice by the true worshippers of God, and which, no doubt, Balaam had knowledge of, and therefore judged that those would be most acceptable to the Lord.