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New Living Translation

Numbers 22:21

So the next morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and started off with the Moabite officials.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ass (Donkey);   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Balaam;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ass, the Domestic;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Moabites;   Travellers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Moabites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ass;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Animals;   Ass;   Balaam;   Transjordan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ass;   Balaam;   Balak;   Moab, Moabites;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balaam;   Balak;   Midian;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ass;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ass;   Saddle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ass;   Hafá¹­arah;   Joshua, the Samaritan Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Bil`am rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Mo'av.
King James Version
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Lexham English Bible
So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he went with the princes of Moab.
English Standard Version
So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.
New Century Version
Balaam got up the next morning and put a saddle on his donkey. Then he went with the Moabite leaders.
New English Translation
So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Amplified Bible
So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the leaders of Moab.
New American Standard Bible
So Balaam arose in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the leaders of Moab.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Balaam rose vp early, and sadled his asse, and went with the princes of Moab.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Balaam arose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the leaders of Moab.
Contemporary English Version
So Balaam got up the next morning and saddled his donkey, then left with the Moabite officials.
Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: iii) So Bil‘am got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Mo'av.
Darby Translation
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Easy-to-Read Version
The next morning, Balaam got up, put a saddle on his donkey, and went with the Moabite leaders.
George Lamsa Translation
So Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the princes of Balak.
Good News Translation
So the next morning Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite leaders.
Christian Standard Bible®
When he got up in the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the officials of Moab.
Literal Translation
And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass and went with the leaders of Moab.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then rose Balaam vp in the mornynge, & sadled his Asse, & wente wt the prynces of ye Moabites.
American Standard Version
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Bible in Basic English
So in the morning Balaam got up and, making his ass ready, went with the chiefs of Moab.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Balaam rose vp early, and sadled his asse, & went with the lordes of Moab.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
King James Version (1611)
And Balaam rose vp in the morning, and sadled his asse, and went with the princes of Moab.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
English Revised Version
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
Berean Standard Bible
So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Balaam roos eerli, and whanne his femal asse was sadelid, he yede forth with hem.
Young's Literal Translation
And Balaam riseth in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and goeth with the princes of Moab,
Update Bible Version
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
World English Bible
Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
New King James Version
So Balaam rose in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
New Life Bible
So Balaam got up in the morning and got his donkey ready, and went with the leaders of Moab.
New Revised Standard
So Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the officials of Moab.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Balaam arose in the morning, and sad-dled his ass, - and went with the princes of Moab.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them.
Revised Standard Version
So Balaam rose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
THE MESSAGE
Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went off with the noblemen from Moab. As he was going, though, God's anger flared. The angel of God stood in the road to block his way. Balaam was riding his donkey, accompanied by his two servants. When the donkey saw the angel blocking the road and brandishing a sword, she veered off the road into the ditch. Balaam beat the donkey and got her back on the road.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Balaam arose in the morning, and saddled his donkey and went with the leaders of Moab.

Contextual Overview

15 Then Balak tried again. This time he sent a larger number of even more distinguished officials than those he had sent the first time. 16 They went to Balaam and delivered this message to him: "This is what Balak son of Zippor says: Please don't let anything stop you from coming to help me. 17 I will pay you very well and do whatever you tell me. Just come and curse these people for me!" 18 But Balaam responded to Balak's messengers, "Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord my God. 19 But stay here one more night, and I will see if the Lord has anything else to say to me." 20 That night God came to Balaam and told him, "Since these men have come for you, get up and go with them. But do only what I tell you to do." 21 So the next morning Balaam got up, saddled his donkey, and started off with the Moabite officials.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 1:15, Proverbs 1:16

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:15 - I have not Numbers 22:35 - I shall speak 1 Kings 13:13 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 22:1
Some time later, God tested Abraham's faith. "Abraham!" God called. "Yes," he replied. "Here I am."
Genesis 22:12
"Don't lay a hand on the boy!" the angel said. "Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son."
Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.
Numbers 23:7
This was the message Balaam delivered: "Balak summoned me to come from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills. ‘Come,' he said, ‘curse Jacob for me! Come and announce Israel's doom.'
Job 1:1
There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.
Job 32:2
Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Balaam rose up in the morning,.... Early, not waiting for the call of the princes, which showed how eager he was to be gone, and how intent upon the journey:

and saddled his ass; which, if he did himself, as Jarchi suggests, this is a further proof of the haste he was in; though, as he had two servants with him, it is more likely that they did it by his order: the same is said of Abraham, Genesis 22:3, it was usual for persons of note and figure, in those times and countries, to ride on asses, Judges 5:10 and went with the princes of Moab; in company with them, and with as good a will as they, his heart and theirs being alike, as Jarchi notes; though it seems by what follows that by some means or another they soon parted company; for when the affair of the ass happened, Balaam was alone, only attended by his two servants.


 
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