Numbers 23:15 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 23:15

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בָּלָ֔ק	ba.Lak	Balak	H1111 →
הִתְיַצֵּ֥ב	hit.ya.Tzev	take your stand	H3320 →
כֹּ֖ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
עַל־	'al-	with	H5921 →
עֹלָתֶ֑ךָ	'o.la.Te.kha	burnt offering your	H5930 →
וְאָנֹכִ֖י	ve.'a.no.Khi	and I	H595 →
אִקָּ֥רֶה	'i.Ka.reh	I will meet	H7136 →
כֹּֽה׃	Koh	thus	H3541 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 23:3
“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went…
leads to
- Leviticus 1:1
  Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
- Numbers 24:1
  And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
- Genesis 22:2
  “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will…
- Genesis 22:13
  Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of…
- Genesis 22:7–8
  Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Through
Numbers 22:8
“Spend the night here,” Balaam replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
leads to
- Numbers 12:6
  He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
- Numbers 22:19–20
  So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
- Numbers 23:12
  But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”