Numbers 23:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I implore you; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Common English Bible

Balak said to Balaam, “Please come and I’ll take you to another place. Perhaps God will prefer it, so that you could curse him for me from there.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Balak said to him: "Come and I will lead you to another place. If perhaps it may please God, then you may curse them from there."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place. If peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

Numbers 23:27 Cross References

Job 23:13

But he stands alone, and who can dissuade him? What he desires, that he does.

Proverbs 19:21

The human mind may devise many plans, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:27

For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Malachi 3:6

For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.

Numbers 22:6

Come now, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:13

So Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only part of them and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Whatever the Lord says, that is what I must do’?”

Numbers 23:28

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.