Numbers 24:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!”
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BSBPD
“How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“How good have been thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Numbers 24:5 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 38:21This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
- Leviticus 23:42You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
- Numbers 2:34So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.
- Numbers 24:2When Balaam looked up and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,
- Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
- Joshua 24:10but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.
- Nehemiah 13:2because they had not met the Israelites with food and water, but had hired Balaam to call down a curse against them (although our God had turned the curse into a blessing).
- Psalms 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Song of Solomon 4:7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
- Song of Solomon 6:4You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
- Malachi 2:12As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.
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