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Numbers 22:12

And God said to Balaam, Thou shall not go with them. Thou shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11Behold, the people came out of Egypt, it covers the face of the earth. Now, come curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.

13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the rulers of Balak, Get into your land, for LORD refuses to give me leave to go with you.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

Numbers 22:19Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what LORD will speak to me more.

Numbers 23:13And Balak said to him, Come, I pray thee, with me to another place, from where thou may see them. Thou shall see but the outmost part of them, and shall not see them all, and curse them for me from there.

Numbers 23:23Surely 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 wrought!

Deuteronomy 7:14Thou shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shall thou be when thou come in, and blessed shall thou be when thou go out.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 22:2-15

Balak Sends for Balaam. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. 2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of… Read the whole commentary →

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