Numbers 23:1

And Bileam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And Balak did as Bileam had spoken, and Balak and Bileam offered up a bullock and a ram upon every altar.

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Cross References

Exodus 27:1And thou shalt make THE ALTAR of sittin woods; five cubits the length and five cubits the breadth; square shall be the altar, and three cubits its height.

Numbers 23:30And Balak did as Bileam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 23:1

In this chapter we have Balak and Balaam busy at work to do Israel a mischief, and, for ought that appears, neither Moses nor the elders of Israel know any thing of the matter, nor are in a capacity to break the snare; but God, who keeps Israel, and neither slumbers nor sleeps, baffles the attempt, without any intercession or contrivance of theirs. Here is, I. The first attempt to curse Israel. 1. The preparation made for it by sacrifice, ver. 1-3 . 2. The contrary instruction God gave Balaam, ver. 4, 5 . 3. The… Read the whole commentary →

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