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Numbers 23:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Numbers 23:20

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18 He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?

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

21 He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. The LORD his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

22 God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

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"He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”"

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Numbers 23:1

"Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”"

Numbers 23:2

"Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram."

Numbers 23:3

"Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height."

Numbers 23:4

"God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”"

Numbers 23:5

"The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”"

Numbers 23:6

"He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab."

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