Deuteronomy 23:4
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
Note That is, Mesopotamia; Aram-naharaim means Aram of the two rivers, likely the region between the Euphrates and Balih Rivers in northwestern Mesopotamia.
Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Because they met
- Deuteronomy 2:28, 29; Genesis 14:17, 18; 1 Samuel 25:11; 1 Kings 18:4; Isaiah 63:9; Zechariah 2:8; Matthew 25:40; Acts 9:4
- because they hired
- Numbers 22:5, 7, 17; Nehemiah 13:2