Numbers 23:20
I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad benedicendum adductus sum : benedictionem prohibere non valeo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ εὐλογεῖν παρείλημμαι· εὐλογήσω, καὶ οὐ μή ἀποστρέψω.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִנֵּ֥ה בָרֵ֖ךְ לָקָ֑חְתִּי וּבֵרֵ֖ךְ וְלֹ֥א אֲשִׁיבֶֽנָּה
Haydock's commentary
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, chap. xxii. 35. (Haydock)
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 it, or leave off." (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.