Numbers 23:27 - Easy To Read Version

²⁷ Then Balak said to Balaam, “So come with me to another place. Maybe God will be pleased and will allow you to curse them from that place.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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)

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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 God never changes.\par No person can stand against God.\par God does anything he wants.\par

Proverbs 19:21

People get a lot of ideas, but only the Lord’s plan will happen.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no person who is wise enough to make a plan that can succeed if the Lord is against it.

Isaiah 14:27

When the Lord makes a plan, no person can stop that plan. When the Lord raises his arm to punish people, no person can stop him.

Malachi 3:6

“I am the Lord, and I don’t change. You are Jacob’s children, and you have not been completely destroyed.

Numbers 22:6

Come and help me. These people are too powerful for me. I know that you have great power. If you bless a person, then good things happen to him. And if you speak against a person, then bad things happen to him. So come and speak against these people. Maybe then I will be able to defeat them. Then I can force them to leave my country.”

Numbers 23:13

Then Balak said to him, “So come with me to another place. At that place you can see more of those people. You can’t see all of them—you can only see part of them. Maybe from that place you can speak against them for me.”

Numbers 23:26

Balaam answered, “I told you before that I can only say the things that the Lord tells me to say.”

Numbers 23:28

So Balak led Balaam to the top of Mount Peor. This mountain looks out over the desert.

Romans 11:29

God never changes his mind about the people he calls and the things he gives them. And God never takes back his call to the people.