OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 23:20

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Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

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Verse 20. To bless, not by my own intention, or by that of Balac, but by God, who hath only suffered me to proceed on my journey, on condition that I would declare his will. Calmet. 22:35. Bible.—Hebrew “Behold, I have received an order to bless;” or, with the Septuagint “I have been chosen to pronounce a blessing; I will bless, and will not revoke, or leave off.” Calmet.

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