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Numbers 23

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Bible Compare Numbers 23
Verse 1
WEB

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

KJV

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

Verse 2
WEB

Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

KJV

And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

Verse 3
WEB

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.

KJV

And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

Verse 4
WEB

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

KJV

And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

Verse 5
WEB

Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

KJV

And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

Verse 6
WEB

He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

KJV

And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

Verse 7
WEB

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

KJV

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying , Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

Verse 8
WEB

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

KJV

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

Verse 9
WEB

For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

KJV

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Verse 10
WEB

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

KJV

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Verse 11
WEB

Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”

KJV

And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

Verse 12
WEB

He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

KJV

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

Verse 13
WEB

Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”

KJV

And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

Verse 14
WEB

He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

KJV

And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Verse 15
WEB

He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”

KJV

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

Verse 16
WEB

Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

KJV

And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

Verse 17
WEB

He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”

KJV

And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?

Verse 18
WEB

He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

KJV

And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

Verse 19
WEB

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?

KJV

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Verse 20
WEB

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

KJV

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

Verse 21
WEB

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

KJV

He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

Verse 22
WEB

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

KJV

God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Verse 23
WEB

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

KJV

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

Verse 24
WEB

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

KJV

Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Verse 25
WEB

Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”

KJV

And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

Verse 26
WEB

But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’”

KJV

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

Verse 27
WEB

Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

KJV

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Verse 28
WEB

Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

KJV

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

Verse 29
WEB

Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

KJV

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Verse 30
WEB

Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

KJV

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.