Numbers 23:15
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New International Version (©2011)
Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Balaam said to the king, "Stand here by your burnt offerings while I go over there to meet the LORD."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD over there.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And he said to Balak, "Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the LORD over there."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here by your burnt offering while I seek the LORD over there."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then he told Balak, "Stand by your offering while I go alone to meet the LORD."

NET Bible (©2006)
And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet with God over there."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

American King James Version
And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

American Standard Version
And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet Jehovah yonder.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.

Darby Bible Translation
And Balaam said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, and I will go to meet yonder.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

World English Bible
He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith unto Balak, 'Station thyself here by thy burnt-offering, and I -- I meet Him there;'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:11-30 Balak was angry with Balaam. Thus a confession of God's overruling power is extorted from a wicked prophet, to the confusion of a wicked prince. A second time the curse is turned into a blessing; and this blessing is both larger and stronger than the former. Men change their minds, and break their words; but God never changes his mind, and therefore never recalls his promise. And when in Scripture he is said to repent, it does not mean any change of his mind; but only a change of his way. There was sin in Jacob, and God saw it; but there was not such as might provoke him to give them up to ruin. If the Lord sees that we trust in his mercy, and accept of his salvation; that we indulge no secret lust, and continue not in rebellion, but endeavour to serve and glorify him; we may be sure that he looks upon us as accepted in Christ, that our sins are all pardoned. Oh the wonders of providence and grace, the wonders of redeeming love, of pardoning mercy, of the new-creating Spirit! Balak had no hope of ruining Israel, and Balaam showed that he had more reason to fear being ruined by them. Since Balaam cannot say what he would have him, Balak wished him to say nothing. But though there are many devices in man's heart, God's counsels shall stand. Yet they resolve to make another attempt, though they had no promise on which to build their hopes. Let us, who have a promise that the vision at the end shall speak and not lie, continue earnest in prayer, Lu 18:1.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - While I meet the Lord yonder. Rather, "and I will go and meet thus." וְאָנֹכִי אִקָּרֶה כֹּה. Balaam does not say whom or what he is going to meet, but from the use of the same term in chapter 24. I it is evident that he employed the language of soothsayers looking for auguries. He may have spoken vaguely on purpose, because he was in truth acting a part with Balak.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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Balaam's Second Oracle
13And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from from where you may see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there. 14And 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. 15And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder. …

Numbers 23:14 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.
Numbers 23:16 The LORD met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this word."