Numbers 22:12

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“But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.””

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BSBPD

“But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“and God saith unto Balaam, `Thou dost not go with them; thou dost not curse the people; for it <FI>is<Fi> blessed.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 22:12 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
  2. Genesis 22:16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
  3. Numbers 22:19So now, please stay here overnight as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to tell me.”
  4. Numbers 23:3“Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,
  5. Numbers 23:13Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from there, curse them for me.”
  6. Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  7. Numbers 23:23For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
  8. Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
  9. Deuteronomy 7:14You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
  10. Deuteronomy 23:5Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
  12. Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
  13. 2 Chronicles 31:10and Azariah, the chief priest of the household of Zadok, answered him, “Since the people began to bring their contributions into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and there is plenty left over, because the LORD has blessed His people; this great abundance is what is left over.”
  14. Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
  15. Psalms 144:15Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.
  16. Psalms 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
  17. Isaiah 61:9Their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the LORD has blessed.
  18. Micah 6:5My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”
  19. Matthew 27:19While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”
  20. Romans 4:6And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
  21. Romans 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
  22. Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.

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