So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

and with their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

There must never be a sacred prostitute ¹  among the young women ²  of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute ³  among the young men ⁴  of Israel.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins. ¹ 

The Levites who were thirty years old and up were counted; there were 38,000 men. ¹ 

(They gave their word ¹  to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.)

“Let the day on which ¹  I was born ²  perish, and the night that said, ³  ‘A man ⁴  has been conceived!’ ⁵ 

I do not need to take ¹  a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.

I will pass through ¹  the land of Egypt in the same ²  night, and I will attack ³  all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, ⁴  and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. ⁵  I am the Lord.

Every firstling ¹  of a donkey you must redeem ²  with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck. ³  Every firstborn of ⁴  your sons you must redeem.

They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ¹  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute ¹  them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, who was the Lord’s chosen one.” ²  The king replied, “I will turn them over.”

The next day they made sacrifices and offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord (1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, 1,000 lambs), along with their accompanying drink offerings and many other sacrifices for all Israel.

Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: ¹  Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like ²  a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.