20That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you."


In Context

17 because I will reward you handsomely and do whatever you say. Come and put a curse on these people for me."

18 But Balaam answered them, "Even if Balak gave me his palace filled with silver and gold, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the Lord my God.

19 Now stay here tonight as the others did, and I will find out what else the Lord will tell me."

20 That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you."

21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

Numbers 22:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, [and] go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:20God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: It these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20Then God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men have come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but only what I shall say unto thee shalt thou do.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men be come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call thee, rise and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say to thee, that shalt thou perform.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, |If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:20And God cometh in unto Balaam, by night, and saith to him, 'If to call for thee the men have come, rise, go with them, and only the thing which I speak unto thee — it thou dost do.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:20And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men come to call you, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say to you, that shall you do.