Parallel NUM 23:20

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OEB No OEB NUM book available

WEBBE Behold, I have received a command to bless.
 ⇔ He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG ^(17-24)Balaam returned and found him stationed beside his Whole-Burnt-Offering and the nobles of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What did God say?” Then Balaam spoke his message-oracle:
  On your feet, Balak. Listen,
  listen carefully son of Zippor:
God is not man, one given to lies,
  and not a son of man changing his mind.
Does he speak and not do what he says?
  Does he promise and not come through?
I was brought here to bless;
  and now he’s blessed—how can I change that?
He has no bone to pick with Jacob,
  he sees nothing wrong with Israel.
God is with them,
  and they’re with him, shouting praises to their King.
God brought them out of Egypt,
  rampaging like a wild ox.
No magic spells can bind Jacob,
  no incantations can hold back Israel.
People will look at Jacob and Israel and say,
  “What a great thing has God done!”
Look, a people rising to its feet, stretching like a lion,
  a king-of-the-beasts, aroused,
Unsleeping, unresting until its hunt is over
  and it’s eaten and drunk its fill.

NET Indeed, I have received a command to bless;
 ⇔ he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

LSV Behold, I have received [only] to bless; Indeed, He blesses, and I cannot reverse it.

FBV Look, I have been ordered to give a blessing. God has blessed, and I can't change that.

T4T He commanded me to request him to bless the Israelis,
 ⇔ So he has blessed them, and I cannot change that.

LEB  • a command to bless; when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return.

BBE See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.

Moff No Moff NUM book available

JPS Behold, I am bidden to bless; and when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back.

ASV Behold, I have received commandment to bless:
 ⇔ And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

DRA I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

YLT Lo, to bless I have received: Yea, He blesseth, and I [can] not reverse it.

Drby Behold, I have received [mission] to bless; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

RV Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

Wbstr Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

KJB-1769 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
   (Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath/has blessed; and I cannot reverse it. )

KJB-1611 Behold, I haue receiued commandement to blesse: and hee hath blessed, and I cannot reuerse it.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Bshps Beholde, I haue taken vpon me to blesse: for he hath blessed, and it is not in my power to aulter it.
   (Behold, I have taken upon me to bless: for he hath/has blessed, and it is not in my power to altar it.)

Gnva Behold, I haue receiued commandement to blesse: for he hath blessed, and I cannot alter it.
   (Behold, I have received commandment to bless: for he hath/has blessed, and I cannot alter it. )

Cvdl Beholde, I am brought hither to blesse, I blesse, & can not go backe there fro.
   (Behold, I am brought hither/hereto bless, I bless, and cannot go back there fro.)

Wycl Y am brouyt to blesse, Y may not forbede blessyng.
   (I am brought to bless, I may not forbede blessing.)

Luth Siehe, zu segnen bin ich hergebracht; ich segne und kann‘s nicht wenden.
   (See, to segnen am I hergebracht; I segne and kann‘s not wenden.)

ClVg Ad benedicendum adductus sum: benedictionem prohibere non valeo.
   (Ad benedicendum adductus sum: benedictionem prohibere not/no valeo. )