Numbers 23:15

15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”

Numbers 23:15 in Other Translations

15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

15 Balaam said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD over there."

15 Then Balaam said to the king, “Stand here by your burnt offerings while I go over there to meet the LORD .”

15 Balaam said to Balak, "Take up your station here beside your Whole-Burnt-Offering while I meet with him over there."

15 Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek [the Lord] over there."

Numbers 23:15 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 23:15

And he said unto Balak, stand here by thy burnt offering
As he had before directed him, ( Numbers 23:3 )

while I meet the Lord yonder;
pointing to some place at a little distance, where he expected to meet the Lord, and have some instructions from him, which he seemed confident of, having met with him once already.

Numbers 23:15 In-Context

13 Then Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will not see them all but only the outskirts of their camp. And from there, curse them for me.”

14 So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.”

16 The LORD met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”

17 So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, “What did the LORD say?”