Numbers 23:27
Good News Translation
Balak said, "Come with me, and I will take you to another place. Perhaps God will be willing to let you curse them for me from there."

New Revised Standard Version
So Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”

Contemporary English Version
Balak said to Balaam, "Come on, let's try another place. Maybe God will let you curse Israel from there."

New American Bible
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me bring you to another place; perhaps God will approve of your laying a curse on them for me from there.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.

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Numbers 23:13 Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.

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Numbers 23:19,20 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil? . . .

Job 23:13 For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.

Proverbs 19:21 There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?

Isaiah 46:10,11 Remember the former age, for I am God, and there is no God beside, neither is there the like to me: . . .

Malachi 3:6 For I am the Lord, and I change not: and you the sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Romans 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

Context
Balaam's Second Oracle
26And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do? 27And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place; if peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence.28And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,…
Cross References
Numbers 23:26
And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?

Numbers 23:28
And when he had brought him upon the top of mount Phogor, which looketh towards the wilderness,

Numbers 23:26
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