Numbers 23:28
New International Version
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

New Living Translation
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

English Standard Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.

Berean Standard Bible
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

King James Bible
And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

New King James Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland.

New American Standard Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.

NASB 1995
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.

NASB 1977
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.

Amplified Bible
So Balak brought Balaam to the top of [Mount] Peor, that overlooks the wasteland.

Christian Standard Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

American Standard Version
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Balaq took Balaam to the top of Peor that appears opposite Ashimon.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Balac took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extends to the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
So he took Balaam to Mount Peor overlooking the desert north of the Dead Sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

English Revised Version
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, which overlooks Jeshimon.

Good News Translation
So he took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor overlooking the desert.

International Standard Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Mount Peor, which overlooks the open wilderness.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.

Literal Standard Version
And Balak takes Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,

Majority Standard Bible
And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

New American Bible
So he took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks Jeshimon.

NET Bible
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.

New Revised Standard Version
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

New Heart English Bible
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looketh towards Jeshimon.

World English Bible
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

Young's Literal Translation
And Balak taketh Balaam to the top of Peor, which is looking on the front of the wilderness,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Balaam's Second Oracle
27“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.” 28And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland. 29Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”…

Cross References
Numbers 21:20
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

Numbers 23:27
"Please come," said Balak, "I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there."

Numbers 23:29
Then Balaam said, "Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams."

Numbers 24:1
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.


Treasury of Scripture

And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward Jeshimon.

Jerhimon

Numbers 21:20
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

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(28) Unto the top of Peor.--Mount Peor was one peak of the northern part of the mountains of Abarim. It was nearer than the other heights to the camp of the Israelites. It looked toward, or over the face of Jeshimon, i.e., the waste (or, desert). See Numbers 21:20.

Verse 28. - Unto the top of Peer. On the meaning of Peer see on chapter Numbers 25:3. This Peer was a summit of the Abarim ranges northwards from Pisgah, and nearer to the Israelites. The adjacent village, Beth-Peer, was near the place of Moses' burial (Deuteronomy 34:6). From the phrase used in Deuteronomy 3:29; Deuteronomy 4:46, with which the testimony of Eusebius agrees, it must have lain almost opposite Jericho on the heights behind the Arboth Moab. From Peer, therefore, the whole encampment, in all its length and breadth, would lie beneath their gaze. Jeshi-men. See on Numbers 21:20.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And Balak
בָּלָ֖ק (bā·lāq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1111: Balak -- 'devastator', a Moabite king

took
וַיִּקַּ֥ח (way·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

Balaam
בִּלְעָ֑ם (bil·‘ām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1109: Balaam -- a prophet

to the top
רֹ֣אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7218: The head

of Peor,
הַפְּע֔וֹר (hap·pə·‘ō·wr)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6465: Peor -- a mountain in Moab, also a god worshiped there

which overlooks
הַנִּשְׁקָ֖ף (han·niš·qāp̄)
Article | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8259: To overhang, look out or down

the wasteland.
הַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃ (hay·šî·mōn)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3452: Waste, wilderness


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