And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Numbers 23:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You see, I have received His command to bless Israel. He has blessed, and I cannot reverse or qualify it. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. Common English Bible I received a blessing, and he blessed. I can’t take it back. Catholic Public Domain Version I was led here to bless, and I have no strength to hinder the blessing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I was brought to bless: the blessing I am not able to hinder. |
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will indeed bless you, and I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore. And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies,
Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him?—yes, and he shall be blessed.”
now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for what thou, O Lord, hast blessed is blessed for ever.”
“I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?”
God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”
But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
Balaam said to Balak, “Lo, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”
“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
who by God's power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.