KJV King James Version
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
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Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
WEB World English Bible
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
ASV American Standard Version
Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!’
Surrounding context — Numbers 23
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth [part] of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether.
12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
מִ֤יH4310 · miwho?מָנָה֙H4487 · ma.nahto countעֲפַ֣רH6083 · a.phardustיַעֲקֹ֔בH3290 · ya.a.qovJacobוּמִסְפָּ֖רH4557 · mis.parnumberאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]רֹ֣בַעH7255 · ro.vafourthיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelתָּמֹ֤תH4191 · mutto dieנַפְשִׁי֙H5315 · ne.pheshsoulמ֣וֹתH4194 · ma.vetdeathיְשָׁרִ֔יםH3477 · ya.sharuprightוּתְהִ֥יH1961 · ha.yahto beאַחֲרִיתִ֖יH319 · a.cha.ritendכָּמֹֽהוּ׃H3644 · ke.molike
Cross-references
Psalm 37:37Mark the perfect [man], and behold the upright: for the end of [that] man [is] peace.Genesis 13:16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.Psalm 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints.Revelation 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.Isaiah 57:1-2The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth [it] to heart: and merciful men [are] taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].2 Timothy 4:6-8For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.Numbers 2:9All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.Genesis 28:14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.Numbers 2:31All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.Genesis 22:17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;Numbers 2:24All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim [were] an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.1 Corinthians 15:53-57For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality.Numbers 2:16All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben [were] an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank.2 Peter 1:13-15Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in remembrance;1 Corinthians 3:21-22Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;Luke 2:29-30Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
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