26But Balaam answered Balak, |Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'|


In Context

23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.|

25 Balak said to Balaam, |Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.|

26 But Balaam answered Balak, |Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'|

27 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.|

28 Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.

Numbers 23:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:26Balaam answered, "Did I not tell you I must do whatever the Lord says?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:26And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh, that I must do?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:26And Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that Jehovah shall speak, that will I do?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:26and Balaam answereth and saith unto Balak, 'Have I not spoken unto thee, saying, All that Jehovah speaketh — it I do?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?