Numbers 22:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ That night God came to Balaam and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but do only what I tell you to do.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up and go with them, but still only what I tell you may you do.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

Common English Bible

²⁰ God came to Balaam in the night and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, arise and go with them. But you must do only what I tell you to do.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Therefore, God came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: "If these men have arrived to call you, then rise up and go with them; yet only in so far as you shall do what I will command you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them. Yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

Numbers 22:20 Cross References

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

Isaiah 37:29

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

Jeremiah 1:7

But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a boy,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you.

Hosea 13:11

I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

Numbers 22:19

You also stay here overnight, so that I may learn what more the Lord may say to me.”

Numbers 22:35

The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you to speak.” So Balaam went on with the officials of Balak.

Numbers 23:12

He answered, “Must I not take care to say what the Lord puts into my mouth?”

Numbers 23:16

The Lord met Balaam, put a word into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you shall say.”

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 23:5

The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.”

Numbers 24:13

‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say’?

Numbers 24:4

the oracle of one who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, who falls down but with eyes uncovered: