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.'|


In Context

14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, |Balaam refuses to come with us.|

15 Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, |Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

17 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.'|

18 Balaam 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.

19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.|

Numbers 22:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:17For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:17because I will reward you handsomely and do whatever you say. Come and put a curse on these people for me."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:17For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:17for 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:17for very highly will I honour thee, and whatever thou shalt say to me will I do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:17for I will promote thee unto very great honour, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:17For I will promote thee to very great honor, and I will do whatever thou sayest to me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse this people for me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:17for very greatly I honour thee, and all that thou sayest unto me I do; and come, I pray thee, pierce for me this people.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:17For I will promote you to very great honor, and I will do whatever you say to me: come therefore, I pray you, curse me this people.