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Numbers 23:1–2

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AND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
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  1. Numbers 23:29Rank 1 from verse 1
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    29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

  2. Jude 1:11Rank 2 from verse 1
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    11Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

  3. 1 Chronicles 15:26Rank 3 from verse 1
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    26And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.

  4. 1 Samuel 15:22Rank 4 from verse 1
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    22And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

  5. 2 Chronicles 29:21Rank 5 from verse 1
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    21And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

  6. 2 Kings 18:22Rank 6 from verse 1
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    22But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

  7. Exodus 20:24Rank 7 from verse 1
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    24¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

  8. Exodus 27:1–8Rank 8 from verse 1
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    1AND thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

    2And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

    3And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

    4And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

    5And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

    6And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

    7And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.

    8Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

  9. Ezekiel 33:31Rank 9 from verse 1
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    31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

  10. Ezekiel 45:23Rank 10 from verse 1
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    23And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

  11. Isaiah 1:11–15Rank 11 from verse 1
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    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

    12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

    13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

    14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

    15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

  12. Job 42:8Rank 12 from verse 1
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    8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

  13. Matthew 23:13Rank 13 from verse 1
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    13¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

  14. Numbers 29:32Rank 14 from verse 1
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    32¶ And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

  15. Proverbs 15:8Rank 15 from verse 1
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    8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

  16. Psalms 50:8–9Rank 16 from verse 1
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    8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

    9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

From verse 2

  1. Numbers 23:14Rank 1 from verse 2
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    14¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

  2. Numbers 23:30Rank 2 from verse 2
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    30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

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Numbers 23:1

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Numbers 23:2

COMBINED MEANING

spoken

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1. Uttered, said, declared, addressed, or communicated in words. 2. In 'spoken of,' mentioned, described, or referred to. 3. In 'spoken for,' addressed by request or commendation on another's behalf; in a marriage setting, sought as a spouse. 4. In 'spoken against' or 'evil spoken of,' opposed, contradicted, denounced, or reviled.

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offered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of offer, meaning to present, bring, give, propose, or attempt.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

on

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1. At, upon, or in contact with the named place, object, side, or time. 2. Toward, against, concerning, depending upon, or directed to the named person or thing. 3. Forward or continuing; in joined expressions such as go on, put on, and lay hold on, the other words supply the particular action.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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23:1AND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.

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23:2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

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23:3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

23:4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

23:5And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

23:6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

23:7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

23:10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

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