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Numbers 22:17

World English Bible

for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’ ”

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Numbers 22:17 in other translations

for I will promote thee unto very great honor, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

Numbers 22:17 · American Standard Version

Numbers 22:17 in context

  1. 15Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
  2. 16They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Balak the son of Zippor says, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,
  3. 17for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.’ ”
  4. 18Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
  5. 19Now therefore please stay here tonight as well, that I may know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”