Verse Lens · Context pointer
Numbers 23:30 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 30. 30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 23:30 within “The Third Oracle Blesses Tents and Foresees Victory,” locates this poetic claim inside its ancient Moab-facing scene; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
Read It With
- Numbers 23:27–24:9
Read Numbers 23:30 with 23:27–24:9. It within “The Third Oracle Blesses Tents and Foresees Victory,” locates this poetic claim inside its ancient Moab-facing scene; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: At Peor, Balaam abandons enchantment, sees Israel by tribes, receives the Spirit, and praises tents, gardens, water, seed, royal exaltation, exodus strength, defeated enemies, lionlike rest, and reciprocal blessing and curse, provoking Balak's anger.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 23:30 within “The Third Oracle Blesses Tents and Foresees Victory,” locates this poetic claim inside its ancient Moab-facing scene; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. Its responsible force depends on 23:27–24:9; isolated from “The Third Oracle Blesses Tents and Foresees Victory,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 23:27–24:9 — The Third Oracle Blesses Tents and Foresees VictorySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 23:27–24:9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 23:27–24:9
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