23:1 1 Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” 23:2 So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each 2 altar a bull and a ram.
10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 9 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 10 He does away with 11 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will 12 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And every priest stands day after day 13 serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest 14 had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand 15 of God,
1 sn The first part of Balaam’s activity ends in disaster for Balak – he blesses Israel. The chapter falls into four units: the first prophecy (vv. 1-10), the relocation (vv. 11-17), the second prophecy (vv. 18-24), and a further location (vv. 25-30).
2 tn The Hebrew text has “on the altar,” but since there were seven of each animal and seven altars, the implication is that this means on each altar.
3 tn The imperatives in this verse are plural, so all three had to do this together.
4 tn The verb “pray” is the Hitpael from the root פָּלַל (palal). That root has the main idea of arbitration; so in this stem it means “to seek arbitration [for oneself],” or “to pray,” or “to intercede.”
5 tn Heb “I will lift up his face,” meaning, “I will regard him.”
6 tn This clause is a result clause, using the negated infinitive construct.
7 tn The word “folly” can also be taken in the sense of “disgrace.” If the latter is chosen, the word serves as the direct object. If the former, then it is an adverbial accusative.
8 sn The difference between what they said and what Job said, therefore, has to do with truth. Job was honest, spoke the truth, poured out his complaints, but never blasphemed God. For his words God said he told the truth. He did so with incomplete understanding, and with all the impatience and frustration one might expect. Now the friends, however, did not tell what was right about God. They were not honest; rather, they were self-righteous and condescending. They were saying what they thought should be said, but it was wrong.
9 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
10 tc The majority of
11 tn Or “abolishes.”
12 tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
13 tn Or “daily,” “every day.”
14 tn Grk “this one.” This pronoun refers to Jesus, but “this priest” was used in the translation to make the contrast between the Jewish priests in v. 11 and Jesus as a priest clearer in English.
15 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.