Numbers 23:20
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
KJV
Ad benedicendum adductus sum : benedictionem prohibere non valeo.
Vulgate
ἰδοὺ εὐλογεῖν παρείλημμαι· εὐλογήσω, καὶ οὐ μή ἀποστρέψω.
LXX
Behold, I have receivedcommandmentto bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
ASV
הִנֵּ֥ה בָרֵ֖ךְ לָקָ֑חְתִּי וּ/בֵרֵ֖ךְ וְ/לֹ֥א אֲשִׁיבֶֽ/נָּה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בָּר֥וּךְ
brvk
verb · 324×
הִנֵּ֥ה
hnh
pronoun · 838×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:5 — Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Acts 4:20 — For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
- Deut 33:29 — Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
- Gen 12:2 — And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
- Gen 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enem
- Isa 43:13 — Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
- John 10:27 — My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
- Num 6:27 — And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
- Num 22:12 — And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.
- Num 22:18 — And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
- Num 22:38 — And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
- Num 23:8 — How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
- Num 23:12 — And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
- Num 24:1 — And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
- Ps 109:28 — Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
- Rom 8:38 — For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,