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Monday, October 13th, 2025
the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Revised Standard Version

Numbers 23:15

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pisgah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Balaam;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Camp, Encampments;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Balaam;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sacrifice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Balaam;   Balak;   Kibroth-Hattaavah;   Moab, Moabites;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Balaam;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Numbers, Book of;  

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."
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.
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 with me to another place, from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there." 14 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15 Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder." 16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak." 17 And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?" 18 And Balaam took up his discourse, and said, "Rise, Balak, and hear; hearken to me, O son of Zippor: 19 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it? 20 Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it. 21 He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them. 22 God brings them out of Egypt; they have as it were the horns of the wild ox.

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
Each who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.
Exodus 30:15
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD's offering to make atonement for yourselves.
Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; five shekels shall be five shekels, and ten shekels shall be ten shekels, and your mina shall be fifty shekels.

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.


 
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