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Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

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ASV

And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.

KJV

And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
אֱלֹהִים֙'E.lo.HimGodH430 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
בִּלְעָ֔םbil.'AmBalaamH1109 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
תֵלֵ֖ךְte.Lekhyou will goH1980 →
עִמָּהֶ֑ם'i.ma.Hemwith themH5973 →
לֹ֤אlo'notH3808 →
תָאֹר֙ta.'Oryou will curseH779 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָעָ֔םha.'Amthe peopleH5971 →
כִּ֥יkiforH3588 →
בָר֖וּךְva.Rukh[is] blessedH1288 →
הֽוּא׃Hu'itH1931 →

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Numbers 23:20I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.Deuteronomy 23:5Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.Romans 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.Numbers 23:19–20God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Numbers 23:8How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?Romans 4:6–7And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”Deuteronomy 1:11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.Micah 6:5My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”Genesis 22:16–18saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,Psalms 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,Numbers 23:23For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’Numbers 22:19–20So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”Matthew 27:19While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”Job 33:15–17In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,Numbers 23:13–15Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”

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An Angel Appears to Balaam — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
An Angel Appears to Balaam — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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