Numbers 23:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ So Balak stood by his sacrifice. And Balaam went to inquire of God: and as he was going straight forward, God appeared to Balaam: And Balaam said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and offered a young bull, and a ram, on each altar.

⁹ And God came to Balaam, and said to him, What would these men with thee?

²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men come to call thee, arise and go with them: but what I say to thee, that thou shalt do.

¹ Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams.

¹⁶ And God met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul. ⁴ You fast for strife and debate; and smite the poor with your fists. Why fast ye for me as today that by a cry your voice may be heard?

¹² saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden, and the heat of the day.

¹² I fast twice a week. I pay tithes of all that I possess.

² They will excommunicate you. Indeed a time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he doth an act of religious worship to God.

²⁷ Where then is this boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No; but by a law of belief.

⁹ It is not because of works; so that no one can boast.