Balaam’s Second Oracle
Numbers 23:22
In 11 translations
- BSB
- God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
- KJV
- God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
- WEB
- God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
- ASV
- God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
- LSV
- God is bringing them out from Egypt, || As the swiftness of a wild ox for him;
- YLT
- God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;
- DBY
- God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.El
- DRC
- God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
- GNV
- God brought them out of Egypt: their strength is as an vnicorne.
- JPS
- God who brought them forth out of Egypt is for them like the lofty horns of the wild-ox.
- LXXE
- It was God who brought him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֵ֖ל מוֹצִיאָ֣ם מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם כְּתוֹעֲפֹ֥ת רְאֵ֖ם לֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Θεὸς ὁ ἐξαγαγὼν αὐτὸν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, ὡς δόξα μονοκέρωτος αὐτῷ.
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- Numbers 24:8God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
- Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of…
- Exodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Job 39:9–11Will the wild ox consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night? Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he plow the valleys behind you? Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your…
- Psalms 22:21Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!
- Psalms 68:35O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!
- Exodus 9:16But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- Numbers 22:5he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt,” said Balak. “They cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.
- Exodus 14:18The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”
- Psalms 92:10But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
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