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Balaam’s First Oracle

Numbers 23:2

In 11 translations

BSB
So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
KJV
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
WEB
Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
ASV
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
LSV
And Balak does as Balaam has spoken, and Balak—Balaam also—offers a bullock and a ram on the altar,
YLT
And Balak doth as Balaam hath spoken, and Balak — Balaam also — offereth a bullock and a ram on the altar,
DBY
And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam offered up a bullock and a ram on [each] altar.
DRC
And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every altar.
GNV
And Balak did as Balaam sayd, and Balak and Balaam offred on euery altar a bullocke and a ramme.
JPS
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
LXXE
And Balac did as Balaam told him; and he offered up a calf and a ram on every altar.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּ֣עַשׂ בָּלָ֔ק כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֣ר בִּלְעָ֑ם וַיַּ֨עַל בָּלָ֧ק וּבִלְעָ֛ם פָּ֥ר וָאַ֖יִל בַּמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐποίησε Βαλὰκ ὃν τρόπον εἶπεν αὐτῷ Βαλαάμ· καὶ ἀνήνεγκε μόσχον καὶ κριὸν ἐπὶ τὸν βωμόν.

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  • Numbers 23:14So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  • Numbers 23:30So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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