Numbers 23:15

Geneva Bible

After, he sayde vnto Balak, Stande here by thy burnt offring, & I wil meete the Lord 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."

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."

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

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 sayde vnto him, Come, I pray thee, with mee vnto another place, whence thou mayest see them, & thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: therefore curse them out of that place for my sake. ¹⁴ And he brought him into Sede-sophim to the top of Pisgah, and built seuen altars, and offred a bullocke, and a ramme on euery altar. ¹⁵ After, he sayde vnto Balak, Stande here by thy burnt offring, & I wil meete the Lord yonder. ¹⁶ And the Lord mette Balaam, and put an answere in his mouth, and sayd, Goe againe vnto Balak, and say thus. ¹⁷ And when he came to him, beholde, hee stoode by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him: so Balak sayde vnto him, What hath the Lord sayd? ¹⁸ And he vttered his parable, and sayde, Rise vp, Balak, and heare: hearken vnto me, thou sonne of Zippor. ¹⁹ God is not as man, that he should lie, neither as the sonne of man that he shoulde repent: hath he sayde and shal he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shal he not accomplish it? ²⁰ Behold, I haue receiued commandement to blesse: for he hath blessed, and I cannot alter it. ²¹ Hee seeth none iniquitie in Iaakob, nor seeth no transgression in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the ioyfull shoute of a king is among them. ²² God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an vnicorne.

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 euery man giue, that goeth into the nomber, halfe a shekel, after the shekel of the Sanctuarie: ( a shekel is twentie gerahs) the halfe shekel shalbe an offring to the Lord.

Exodus 30:15
The rich shall not passe, and the poore shall not diminish from halfe a shekel, when ye shall giue an offring vnto the Lorde, for the redemption of your liues.

Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel shalbe twentie gerahs, and twentie shekels, and fiue and twentie shekels and fifteene shekels shalbe 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.