Parallel Verses
Amplified
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”
New American Standard Bible
Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be
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.
Holman Bible
Again Balak said to Balaam, “Please come. I will take you to another place. Maybe it will be agreeable to God that you can put a curse on them for me there.”
International Standard Version
So Balak exhorted Balaam, "Let's go right now! I'll take you to another place. Maybe God will agree to have you curse them for me from there."
A Conservative Version
And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take thee to another place. Perhaps it will please God that thou may curse them for me from there.
American Standard Version
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
Bible in Basic English
Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.
Darby Translation
And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee to another place; perhaps it will be right in the sight of God that thou curse me them from thence.
Julia Smith Translation
And Balak will say to Balaam, Come now, I will take thee to another place; perhaps it will be right in the eyes of God, and curse him to me from thence.
King James 2000
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray you, I will bring you unto another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps {it will be acceptable to} God, and you will curse for me from there."
Modern King James verseion
And Balak said to Balaam, Please, come. I will bring you into another place. Perhaps it will please God that you will curse them for me from there.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Balak said unto Balaam, "Come, I pray thee; I will bring thee yet unto another place: so peradventure it shall please God that thou mayest curse them there."
NET Bible
Balak said to Balaam, "Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."
New Heart English Bible
Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."
The Emphasized Bible
And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee! let me take thee unto another place, - peradventure, it may be right in the eyes of God, that thou revile me him. from thence.
Webster
And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee to another place; perhaps it will please God that thou mayest from thence curse them for me.
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 me them from there."
Youngs Literal Translation
And Balak saith unto Balaam, 'Come, I pray thee, I take thee unto another place; it may be it is right in the eyes of God -- to pierce it for me from thence.'
Interlinear
Yalak
Laqach
Maqowm
'elohiym
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 23:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Balaam Relocates Yet Again
26 But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not say to you, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do?’” 27 Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.” 28 So Balak brought Balaam to the top of [Mount] Peor, that overlooks the wasteland.
Cross References
Numbers 23:13
Balak said to him, “Come with me, I implore you, to another place from where you can see them, although you will see only the nearest and not all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
Numbers 23:19-20
“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?
Job 23:13
“But He is unique and unchangeable, and who can turn Him?
And what His soul desires, that He does.
Proverbs 19:21
Many plans are in a man’s mind,
But it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand (be carried out).
Proverbs 21:30
There is no [human] wisdom or understanding
Or counsel [that can prevail] against the Lord.
Isaiah 14:27
For the Lord of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
Isaiah 46:10-11
Declaring the end and the result from the beginning,
And from ancient times the things which have not [yet] been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
And I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose,’
Malachi 3:6
“For I am the Lord, I do not change [but remain faithful to My covenant with you]; that is why you, O sons of Jacob, have not come to an end.
Romans 11:29
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable [for He does not withdraw what He has given, nor does He change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call].