Numbers 24:5
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How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel!

Numbers 24:4
The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:

Numbers 24:6
As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.

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How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel!

as gardens

Genesis 2:8-10 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed. . . .

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Songs 4:12-15 My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up. . . .

Songs 6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits of the valleys, and to look if the vineyard had flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Jeremiah 31:12 And they shall come, and shall give praise in mount Sion: and they shall flow together to the good things of the Lord, for the corn, and wine, and oil, and the increase of cattle and herds, and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall be hungry no more.

Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.

as the trees.

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Jeremiah 17:18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, and let not me be confounded: let them be afraid, and let not me be afraid: bring upon them the day of affliction, and with a double destruction, destroy them.

which the

Psalm 104:16 The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted:

Isaiah 41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and the myrtle, and the olive tree: I will set in the desert the fir tree, the elm, and the box tree together:

as cedar

Psalm 92:12-14 The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus. . . .

Ezekiel 31:3,4 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs. . . .

Ezekiel 47:12 And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

Context
Balaam's Third Oracle
4The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened: 5How beautiful are thy tabernacles O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel!6As woody valleys, as watered gardens near the rivers, as tabernacles which the Lord hath pitched, as cedars by the waterside.…
Lexicon
How
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

beautiful
טֹּ֥בוּ (ṭō·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2895: To be pleasing or good

are your tents,
אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ (’ō·hā·le·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 168: A tent

O Jacob,
יַעֲקֹ֑ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

your dwellings,
מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יךָ (miš·kə·nō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle

O Israel!
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc


Additional Translations
How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!

How goodly are thy habitations, Jacob, and thy tents, Israel!

How goodly are thy tents, Jacob, and thy tabernacles, Israel!

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!

How good have been thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel;
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