Balaam’s Second Oracle
Numbers 23:28
In 11 translations
- BSB
- And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.Or Jeshimon
- KJV
- And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
- WEB
- Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
- ASV
- And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
- LSV
- And Balak takes Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,
- YLT
- And Balak taketh Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,
- DBY
- And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks over the surface of the waste.
- DRC
- And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
- GNV
- So Balak brought Balaam vnto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Ieshmon.
- JPS
- And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.
- LXXE
- And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיִּקַּ֥ח בָּלָ֖ק אֶת־בִּלְעָ֑ם רֹ֣אשׁ הַפְּע֔וֹר הַנִּשְׁקָ֖ף עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ παρέλαβε Βαλὰκ τὸν Βαλαὰμ ἐπὶ κορυφὴν τοῦ Φογὼρ, τὸ παρατεῖνον εἰς τὴν ἔρημον.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Numbers 21:20and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
- Psalms 106:28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
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