Numbers 22:12

In 11 translations

BSB

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this 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.

WEB

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

ASV

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

LSV

and God says to Balaam, “You do not go with them; you do not curse the people, for it [is] blessed.”

YLT

and God saith unto Balaam, 'Thou dost not go with them; thou dost not curse the people; for it [is] blessed.'

DBY

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

DRC

And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.

GNV

And God said vnto Balaam, Go not thou with them, neither curse the people, for they are blessed.

JPS

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

LXXE

And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, neither shalt thou curse the people; for they are blessed.

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WLC

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־בִּלְעָ֔ם לֹ֥א תֵלֵ֖ךְ עִמָּהֶ֑ם לֹ֤א תָאֹר֙ אֶת־הָעָ֔ם כִּ֥י בָר֖וּךְ הֽוּא׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς Βαλαὰμ, οὐ πορεύσῃ μετʼ αὐτῶν, οὐδὲ καταράσῃ τὸν λαόν· ἔστι γὰρ εὐλογημένος.

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• 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? I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot…
• 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.
• Romans 4:6–7And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
• 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.”
• 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!’
• 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, I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the…
• 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.” That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them,…
• 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.’”
• 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, He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings to turn a man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride,
• Psalms 144:15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
• 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.” So Balak took him to the field of…

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