Numbers 23:4
Good News Translation
and God met him. Balaam said to him, "I have built the seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each."

New Revised Standard Version
Then God met Balaam; and Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars, and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

Contemporary English Version
When God appeared to him, Balaam said, "I have built seven altars and have sacrificed a bull and a ram on each one."

New American Bible
Then God met Balaam, and Balak said to him: “I have erected the seven altars, and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.

God

Numbers 23:16 And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

Numbers 22:9,20 What mean these men that are with thee? . . .

I have prepared

Numbers 23:1 And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

Isaiah 58:3,4 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. . . .

Matthew 20:12 Saying: These last have worked but one hour. and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

Luke 18:12 I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

Romans 3:27 Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, that no man may glory.

Context
Balaam's First Oracle
3And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee. 4And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.5And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.…
Cross References
Numbers 23:3
And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet me, and whatsoever he shall command, I will speak to thee.

Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 23:3
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