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Numbers 22:18-20
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Numbers 22:18-20
New English Translation
18 Balaam replied[a] to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment[b] of the Lord my God[c] to do less or more. 19 Now therefore, please stay[d] the night here also, that I may know what more the Lord might say to me.”[e] 20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”
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- Numbers 22:18 tn Heb “answered and said.”
- Numbers 22:18 tn Heb “mouth.”
- Numbers 22:18 sn In the light of subsequent events one should not take too seriously that Balaam referred to Yahweh as his God. He is referring properly to the deity for which he is acting as the agent.
- Numbers 22:19 tn In this case “lodge” is not used, but “remain, reside” (שְׁבוּ, shevu).
- Numbers 22:19 tn This clause is also a verbal hendiadys: “what the Lord might add to speak,” meaning, “what more the Lord might say.”
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