◄ Numbers 22:11 ►
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Good News Translation
that a people who came from Egypt has spread out over the whole land. He wants me to curse them for him, so that he can fight them and drive them out."

New Revised Standard Version
‘A people has come out of Egypt and has spread over the face of the earth; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”

Contemporary English Version
to ask me to go to Moab and put a curse on the people who have come there from Egypt. They have settled everywhere around him, and he wants to run them off."

New American Bible
‘This people that has come out of Egypt has covered up the earth. Now come, lay a curse on them for me; perhaps I may be able to fight them and drive them out.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.

able to overcome them.

Context
Balak Summons Balaam
…10He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me, 11Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away.12And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.…
Cross References
Numbers 22:10
He answered: Balac the son of Sephor king of the Moabites hath sent to me,

Numbers 22:12
And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.

Numbers 22:10
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