Numbers 23:1
Good News Translation
He said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and bring me seven bulls and seven rams."

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

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Numbers 23:29 Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain: and after the error of Balaam they have for reward poured out themselves and have perished in the contradiction of Core.

seven altars

Exodus 20:24 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee.

Exodus 27:1 Thou shalt make also an altar of setim wood, which shall be five cubits long, and as many broad, that is four square, and three cubits high.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.

2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me: We trust in the Lord, our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away: and hath commanded Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

Psalm 50:8,9 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. . . .

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . .

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

seven oxen

Numbers 29:32 The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:

1 Chronicles 15:26 And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven rams.

2 Chronicles 29:21 And they offered together seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats for sin, for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, for Juda: and he spoke to the priests the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord.

Job 42:8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Ezekiel 45:23 And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for a holocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days: and for sin a he goat daily.

Context
Balaam's First Oracle
1And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.2And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.…
Cross References
Numbers 22:41
And when morning was come, he brought him to the high places of Baal, and he beheld the uttermost part of the people.

Numbers 23:2
And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.

1 Chronicles 15:26
And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven rams.

Job 42:8
Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Ezekiel 45:23
And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for a holocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days: and for sin a he goat daily.

Numbers 22:41
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