Numbers 23:27 - Tree of Life Version

²⁷ Balak said to Balaam, “Come with me to another place. Perhaps it will be pleasing to God and you may curse them for me from there.”

More versions

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."

Numbers 23:27 Cross References

Job 23:13

He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does.

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of Adonai will stand.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel— against Adonai.

Isaiah 14:27

For Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed, so who will annul it? Since His hand is stretched out, who will turn it back?

Malachi 3:6

“For I am Adonai. I do not change, So you, children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Numbers 22:6

Come now, curse this people for me, because they are too strong for me! Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them away from the country. I know that whoever you bless will be blessed and whoever you curse will be accursed!”

Numbers 23:13

Then Balak said to him, “Come now with me to another place where you can see a part of them only, not all of them. Curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 23:26

Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Haven’t I told you, ‘All that Adonai says, I must do?’

Numbers 23:28

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

Romans 11:29

for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.