Numbers 23:1 Cross References - CLV

¹ Balaam said to Balak:Build for me in this place seven altars and prepare for me in this place seven young bulls and seven rams.

²⁴ An altar of ground soil shall you make for Me, and you will sacrifice on it your ascent offerings and your peace offerings, your flock and your herd. In every place where I shall record My name I shall come to you and will bless you.

¹ You will make the altar of acacia boards, five cubits the length and five cubits the width. The altar shall come to be square, and its rise shall be three cubits. ² You will make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you will overlay it with copper. ³ You will make its pots for its greasy ash, and its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all its furnishings shall you make of copper. ⁴ You will make it for a grate, a handiwork of copper net, and make on the net four rings of copper on its four ends. ⁵ You will put it beneath the encompassment of the altar from below so that the net comes as far as halfway up the altar. ⁶ You will make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with copper. ⁷ Then you will insert its poles in the rings, and the poles will come to be on the two angle walls of the altar when carrying it. ⁸ Hollow, of planks, shall you make it; just as one shows you on the mount, so shall they do.

²⁹ Then Balaam said to Balak:Build for me in this place seven altars, and prepare for me in this place seven young bulls and seven rams.

³² On the seventh day:seven young bulls, two rams, fourteen flawless year-old he-lambs,

²² And Samuel said, `Has Yahweh had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as [in] hearkening to the voice of Yahweh? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;"

²² `And when you say unto me, Unto Yahweh our Elohim we have trusted, is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has turned aside, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar do you bow yourselves in Jerusalem?

²⁶ and it comes to pass, in Elohim's helping the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrifice seven bullocks and seven rams.

²¹ and they bring in seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven young he-goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah; and he said to sons of Aaron, the priests, to cause [them] to ascend on the altar of Yahweh.

⁸ Now take for yourselves seven bullocks and seven rams. Go to my servant Job, and offer up an ascent offering on behalf of yourselves. And Job, my servant, he shall pray for you. For then I shall lift up his face by not inflicting on you any disgrace. For you did not speak concerning Me what is rightly so as My servant Job has done.

⁸ Not for your sacrifices shall I reprove you Or for your ascent offerings in front of Me continually. ⁹ I shall not take a young bull from your household, Or he-goats from your folds."

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abhorrence to Yahweh, Yet the prayer of the upright is acceptable to Him."

¹¹ Why, to Me, your many sacrifices?saying is Yahweh. "I am surfeited with ascent approaches of rams, and the fat of fatlings, and in the blood of young bulls and he-lambs and he-goats I do not delight." ¹² In case you are coming to appear before Me--Who seeks this from your hand, to tramp My courts? ¹³ Do not continue to bring a futile approach present. Incense--it is an abhorrence to Me! The new moon and the sabbath, the calling of a meeting--! I cannot bear a fast and a day of restraint!" ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointments are hated by My soul. They become an encumbrance to Me. I am tired of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when you spread your palms to Me, I will obscure My eyes from you. Moreover, in case you are increasing your prayers, there is no hearing by Me. Your hands are full of blood. Amidst your fingers extrudes lawlessness."

³¹ And they come in unto you as the coming in of a people, And they sit before you--My people, And have heard your words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going."

²³ And the seven days of the feast he prepares a burnt-offering to Yahweh, seven bullocks, and seven rams, perfect ones, daily seven days, and a sin-offering, a kid of the goats, daily."

¹³ Now woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are locking the kingdom of the heavens in front of men. For you are not entering, neither are you letting those entering to enter."

¹¹ Woe to them! for they went in the way of Cain, and in the deception of Balaam's wages were they poured out, and in the contradiction of Korah they perished."