Numbers 22:12

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth; now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'

13And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak: 'Get you into your land; for the LORD refuseth 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 the LORD will speak unto me more.'

Numbers 23:13And Balak said unto him: 'Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all; and curse me them from thence.'

Numbers 23:23For there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel; now is it said of Jacob and of Israel: 'What hath God wrought!'

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

Deuteronomy 28:6Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest 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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