Numbers 23:15

The Darby Translation

And [Balaam] said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, and I will go to meet yonder.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.

King James Version
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.

Lexham English Bible
Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there."

English Standard Version
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord over there."

New Century Version
So Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering, and I will meet with God over there."

New English Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there."

Amplified Bible
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering while I go to meet the LORD over there."

New American Standard Bible
Then he said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the LORD over there."

Geneva Bible (1587)
After, he sayde vnto Balak, Stande here by thy burnt offring, & I wil meete the Lord yonder.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet Yahweh over there."

Contemporary English Version
"Wait here beside your offerings," Balaam said. "The Lord will appear to me over there."

Complete Jewish Bible
Bil‘am said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I go over there for a meeting."

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by this altar while I go meet with God over there."

George Lamsa Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offerings while I go yonder.

Good News Translation
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, and I will meet God over there."

Christian Standard Bible®
Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the Lord over there.”

Literal Translation
And he said to Balak, Station yourself by the burnt offering while I go to meet Him over there.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he sayde vnto Balac: Stonde so by thy burntoffrynge, whyle I go yonder.

American Standard Version
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder.

Bible in Basic English
Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he said vnto Balac: Stande here by thy burnt sacrifice, whyle I meete [the Lorde] yonder.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'

King James Version (1611)
And he said vnto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meete the Lord yonder.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go to enquire of God.

English Revised Version
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

Berean Standard Bible
Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he seide to Balaach, Stonde here bisidis thi brent sacrifice, while Y go.

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith unto Balak, `Station thyself here by thy burnt-offering, and I -- I meet [Him] there;'

Update Bible Version
And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt-offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.

World English Bible
He said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder.

New King James Version
And he said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet [fn] the Lord over there."

New Living Translation
Then Balaam said to the king, "Stand here by your burnt offerings while I go over there to meet the Lord ."

New Life Bible
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt gift, while I meet the Lord over there."

New Revised Standard
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offerings, while I meet the Lord over there."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said he to Balak, Station thyself here by thine ascending-sacrifice, - while, I, meet him yonder.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.

Revised Standard Version
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder."

THE MESSAGE
Balaam said to Balak, "Take up your station here beside your Whole-Burnt-Offering while I meet with him over there."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the LORD over there."

Contextual Overview

¹³ And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from whence thou wilt see them; thou shalt see only the extremity of them and shalt not see them all, and curse me them from thence. ¹⁴ And he took him to the watchmen's field, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on [each] altar. ¹⁵ And [Balaam] said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, and I will go to meet yonder. ¹⁶ And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. ¹⁷ And he came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him; and Balak said to him, What has Jehovah spoken? ¹⁸ Then he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear! hearken unto me, son of Zippor! ¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good? ²⁰ Behold, I have received [mission] to bless; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. ²¹ He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen wrong in Israel; Jehovah his God is with him, and the shout of a king is in his midst. ²² God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 23:3, Numbers 22:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - met Numbers 24:1 - at other times Joshua 24:10 - General Micah 6:6 - with

Cross-References

Exodus 30:13
This shall they give—every one that passeth among them that are numbered—half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary,—twenty gerahs the shekel; a half shekel shall be the heave-offering for Jehovah.

Exodus 30:15
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when ye give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto Balak, stand here by thy burnt offering,.... As he had before directed him, Numbers 23:3

while I meet the Lord yonder; pointing to some place at a little distance, where he expected to meet the Lord, and have some instructions from him, which he seemed confident of, having met with him once already.