Numbers Chapter 23 verse 22 Holy Bible

ASV Numbers 23:22

God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
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BBE Numbers 23:22

It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.
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DARBY Numbers 23:22

ùGod brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.
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KJV Numbers 23:22

God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
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WBT Numbers 23:22

God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn.
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WEB Numbers 23:22

God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
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YLT Numbers 23:22

God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - God. אֵל, and also at the end of the next verse, and four times in the next chapter (verses 4, 8, 16, 23). The use seems to be poetic, and no particular signification can be attached to it. Brought them, or, perhaps, "is leading them." So the Septuagint: Θεὸς ὁ ἐξαγαγὼν αὐτόν. Unicorn. Hebrew, רְאֵם. It is uniformly rendered μονοκέρως by the Septuagint, under the mistaken notion that the rhinoceros was intended. It is evident, however, from Deuteronomy 33:17 and other passages that the teem had two hems, and that its horns were its most prominent feature. It would also appear from Job 39:9-12 and Isaiah 34:7 that, while itself untameable, it was allied to species employed in husbandry. The reem may therefore have been the aurochs or urus, now extinct, but which formerly had so large a range in the forests of the old world. There is some doubt, however, whether the urns existed in those days in Syria, and it may have been a wild buffalo, or some kindred animal of the bovine genus, whose size, fierceness, and length of horn made it a wonder and a fear.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) God brought them out of Egypt.--Literally, is bringing them. The use of the participle denotes the continuance of the action. He who brought them forth out of Egypt was still conducting them on their march. There is an obvious allusion in these words to those of Balak in Numbers 22:5 : "Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt." Seeing that the people did not come out of Egypt in obedience to their own caprice, but under Divine guidance, it was vain for Balak to resist them on their course, seeing that to contend with them was to contend against God.The strength of an unicorn.--Better, of a buffalo. (Comp. Deuteronomy 33:17--a passage closely resembling the present--from which it appears that the reem had more than one horn.)