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Numbers 23:20

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

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Numbers 23:20 in other translations

KJV King James Version

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

NHEB New Heart English Bible

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

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In context

17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”

18 He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?

20 Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

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