Numbers 23:20
I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
BSB
ASV
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
KJV
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
I have received commandment to bless - literally, “I have received to bless.” The reason of his blessing lay in the augury which he acknowledged, and in the divine overruling impulse which he could not resist, not in any “commandment” in words.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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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.
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I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.
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Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
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The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
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Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
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And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
