Verse 20
Numbers 23:20
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
20
I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנֵּ֥ה בָרֵ֖ךְ לָקָ֑חְתִּי וּ/בֵרֵ֖ךְ וְ/לֹ֥א אֲשִׁיבֶֽ/נָּה
English Translation
Behold, I have taken a blessing, and I will not return it.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 23 Context
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And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same numbe...
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And when he had done according to the word of Balaam, they laid together a calf and a ram upon every...
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And Balaam said to Balac: Stand a while by thy burnt offering, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lor...
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And when he was gone with speed, God (Elohim) met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erec...
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And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
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Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:
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And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the m...
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How shall I curse him, whom God (Elohim) hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom th...
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I shall see him from the tops of the rocks, and shall consider him from the hills. This people shall...
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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the dea...
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And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou...
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He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
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Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and...
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And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars...
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He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.
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And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus...
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Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. An...
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But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
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God (Elohim) is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hat...
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I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
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There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God (Elo...
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God (Elohim) hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.
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There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob...
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Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie d...
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And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.
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And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God (Elohim) should command me, that I would do?
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And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God (E...
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And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,
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Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of r...
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Balac did as Balaam had said: and he laid on every altar, a calf and a ram.
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