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Numbers 22:15

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Balaam Accompanies the Moabite Princes

22:15Balak again sent princes,24 more numerous and more distinguished than the first.25

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  1. 24 The construction is a verbal hendiadys. It uses the Hiphil preterite of the verb “to add” followed by the Qal infinitive “to send.” The infinitive becomes the main verb, and the preterite an adverb: “he added to send” means “he sent again.”
  2. 25 Heb “than these.”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these.

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NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then Balak sent other officials, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

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CSBChristian Standard Bible

Balak sent officials again who were more numerous and higher in rank than the others.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Then Balak tried again. This time he sent a larger number of even more distinguished officials than those he had sent the first time.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Balak again sent many princes, who were more honored than the former.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

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