Numbers 22:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do; come, curse this people for me.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For I will promote you to very great honor and I will do whatever you tell me; so come, I beg of you, curse this people for me.

American Standard Version (1901)

for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Common English Bible

for I’ll greatly honor you and I’ll do anything you ask of me. Please come and curse this people for me.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For I am ready to honor you, and whatever you would want, I shall give to you. Come and curse this people."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt. Come and curse this people.

Numbers 22:17 Cross References

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.

Esther 7:9

Then said Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, “Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman's house, fifty cubits high.”

Numbers 22:16

And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Let nothing hinder you from coming to me;

Numbers 22:37

And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

Numbers 22:6

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

Numbers 24:11

Therefore now flee to your place; I said, ‘I will certainly honor you,’ but the Lord has held you back from honor.”

Matthew 14:7

so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?

Deuteronomy 16:9

“You shall count seven weeks; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.