Numbers 22:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.

Common English Bible

¹² God said to Balaam, “Don’t go with them. Don’t curse the people, because they are blessed.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them, and do not curse the people, for they are blessed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.

Numbers 22:12 Cross References

Genesis 12:2

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.

2 Chronicles 31:10

Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left; for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this great store left.”

Psalm 144:15

Happy the people to whom such blessings fall! Happy the people whose God is the Lord!

Psalm 146:5

Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Isaiah 61:9

Their descendants shall be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed.

Micah 6:5

O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”

Numbers 22:11

‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’ ”

Numbers 22:13

So Balaam rose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your own land; for the Lord has refused to let me go with 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 23:23

For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’

Numbers 23:3

And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.

Numbers 23:8

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

Numbers 24:9

He couched, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed be every one who blesses you, and cursed be every one who curses you.”

Matthew 27:19

Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much over him today in a dream.”

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; he knows your going through this great wilderness; these forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.’

Deuteronomy 23:5

Nevertheless the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.

Deuteronomy 28:6

Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you; and you shall tread upon their high places.”

Deuteronomy 7:14

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.