Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
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Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
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Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Then Balaam sayde vnto Balak, Make me here seuen altars, and prepare me here seuen bullocks, and seuen rammes.
Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
and Balaam saith unto Balak, `Build for me in this `place' seven altars, and make ready for me in this `place' seven bullocks and seven rams;'
and Balaam says to Balak, “Build seven altars for me in this [place], and prepare seven bullocks and seven rams for me in this [place]”;
Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.”
And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”
And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
Balaam told Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me to sacrifice.”
And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.
And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.'
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
בָּלָ֔ק Balak H1111 occurs in 40 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 19 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בִּלְעָם֙ אֶל בָּלָ֔ק בְּנֵה לִ֥י בָזֶ֖ה שִׁבְעָ֣ה מִזְבְּחֹ֑ת וְהָכֵ֥ן לִי֙ בָּזֶ֔ה שִׁבְעָ֥ה פָרִ֖ים וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה אֵילִֽים
Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί εἶπον βαλααμ πρός βαλακ οἰκοδομέω ἐγώ ὧδε ἑπτά βωμός καί ἑτοιμάζω ἐγώ ὧδε ἑπτά μόσχος καί ἑπτά κριός
And Balaam said to Balac, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven calves, and seven rams.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַאֲמַר בִּלְעָם לְבָלָק בְּנֵה לִי הָכָא שַׁבְעָא מַדְבְּחִין וְאַתְקִין לִי הָכָא שַׁבְעָא תוֹרִין וְשַׁבְעָא דִכְרִין
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וַאֲמַר בִּלְעָם לְבָלָק בְּנֵה לִי הָכָא שׁוּבְעָא אֱגוֹרִין וְעַתַּד לִי הָכָא שׁוּבְעָא תוֹרִין וְשׁוּבְעָא דִכְרִין
And Bileam said to Balak, Erect here for me seven altars, and prepare me seven bullocks and seven rams.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 16 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Bâlâq (“Balak”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 23:29 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.