Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Behold, I have receivedcommandmentto bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
WEB
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
YLT
Lo, to bless I have received: Yea, He blesseth, and I can not reverse it.
DBT
Behold, I have received [mission] to bless; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC