Numbers 22:12

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

11Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.

13And he rose in the morning and said to the princes: Go into your country, because the Lord hath forbid me to come 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 magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Numbers 22:19I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.

Numbers 23:13Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.

Numbers 23:23There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

Deuteronomy 7:14Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shalt thou be coming in and going 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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