KJV King James Version
And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
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Numbers 21:20
And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
WEB World English Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
ASV American Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and from Bamoth in the valley which is in the field of Moab to the top of Pisgah, which hath looked on the front of the wilderness.
Surrounding context — Numbers 21
17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by [the direction of] the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness [they went] to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink [of] the waters of the well: [but] we will go along by the king’s [high] way, until we be past thy borders.
23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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וּמִבָּמ֗וֹתH1120 · ba.motBamothהַגַּיְא֙H1516 · gayValleyאֲשֶׁר֙H834 · a.sherwhichבִּשְׂדֵ֣הH7704 · sa.daySirionמוֹאָ֔בH4124 · mo.avMoabרֹ֖אשׁH7218 · roshheadהַפִּסְגָּ֑הH6449 · pis.gahPisgahוְנִשְׁקָ֖פָהH8259 · sha.qaphto lookעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהַיְשִׁימֹֽן׃ פH3452 · ye.shi.monJeshimon
Cross-references
Numbers 23:28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.Deuteronomy 34:1And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,Deuteronomy 4:49And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.Deuteronomy 3:27Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold [it] with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.Numbers 22:1And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan [by] Jericho.Numbers 26:63These [are] they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.Numbers 33:49-50And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth [even] unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.Numbers 23:14And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.Deuteronomy 1:5On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
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