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Numbers 23:27

Numbers 23:27 is verse 27 of Numbers chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

“Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”

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King James Version

And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

World English Bible

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.”

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Numbers 23:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”

26 But Balaam replied, “Did I not tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”

27 “Please come,” said Balak, “I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you curse them for me from there.”

28 And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

29 Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Numbers 23:20

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Job 23:13

But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.

Proverbs 19:21

Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.

Proverbs 21:30

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Isaiah 14:27

The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

Isaiah 46:10

I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Isaiah 46:11

I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.

Malachi 3:6

“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

Romans 11:29

For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.

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