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Passage Lookup: Numbers 23:1-10
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Balaam said, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."
Numbers 23:1
- Variant Count: 3 (17%)
Balaam said, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me."
Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:2
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went off to a barren height.
Numbers 23:3
- Variant Count: 3 (7%)
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went off to a barren height.
God met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."
Numbers 23:4
- Variant Count: 2 (8%)
God met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."
The LORD put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."
Numbers 23:5
- Variant Count: 4 (20%)
The Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this word."
So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the princes of Moab.
Numbers 23:6
- Variant Count: 3 (15%)
So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
Then Balaam uttered his oracle: "Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. 'Come,' he said, 'curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'
Numbers 23:7
- Variant Count: 4 (13%)
Then Balaam spoke his message: "Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. ‘Come,' he said, ‘curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'
How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23:8
- Variant Count: 1 (4%)
How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?
From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.
Numbers 23:9
- Variant Count: 1 (3%)
From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like theirs!"
Numbers 23:10
- Variant Count: 5 (16%)
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!"
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