Numbers 23:20 - New International Version (Anglicised)

I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King 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.

Numbers 23:20 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:2

‘I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Genesis 27:33

Isaac trembled violently and said, ‘Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him – and indeed he will be blessed!’

1 Chronicles 17:27

Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue for ever in your sight; for you, Lord, have blessed it, and it will be blessed for ever.’

Isaiah 43:13

Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No-one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?’

Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam, ‘Do not go with them. You must not put a curse on those people, because they are blessed.’

Numbers 22:18

But Balaam answered them, ‘Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the Lord my God.

Numbers 22:38

‘Well, I have come to you now,’ Balaam replied. ‘But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.’

Numbers 6:27

‘So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.’

1 Peter 1:5

who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.