Numbers 23:6
4 and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
5 Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.
7 And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
8 How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.
- KJV
- And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- WEB
- He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- ASV
- And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- DARBY
- And he returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- BLB
- And he returned to him, and behold, he is standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
- ÅB
- Da han kom tilbake, så han Balak stå ved sitt brennoffer sammen med alle Moabs høvdinger.
- OTB
- Bileam vendte tilbake til Balak, som sto ved sitt offer sammen med alle Moabs ledere.
- B1930
- Da han kom tilbake, så han Balak stå ved sitt brennoffer sammen med alle Moabs høvdinger.