Numbers 22:40
And when Balac had killed oxen and sheep, he sent presents to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque occidisset Balac boves et oves, misit ad Balaam, et principes qui cum eo erant, munera.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔθυσεν Βαλὰκ πρόβατα καὶ μόσχους, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τῷ Βαλαὰμ καὶ τοῖς ἄρχουσι τοῖς μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּזְבַּ֥ח בָּלָ֖ק בָּקָ֣ר וָצֹ֑אן וַיְשַׁלַּ֣ח לְבִלְעָ֔ם וְלַשָּׂרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִתּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
With him. Only two servants were mentioned, (ver. 22,) and the princes sent by Balac, ver. 15. Perhaps others from Mesopotamia might attend Balaam. (Haydock)
The king sent parts of the victims to all. (Chaldean)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.