NET Bible
"For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”"
— Numbers 22:17, NET Bible
“For 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.”
“for 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. ”
“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.'"”
“For I am ready to honour thee, and will give thee whatsoever thou wilt: come and curse this people.”
“For I will give you a place of very great honour, and whatever you say to me I will do; so come, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people.”
“For 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.”
So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said,“Balaam refused to come with us.”
Balaam Accompanies the Moabite Princes Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.
And they came to Balaam and said to him,“Thus says Balak son of Zippor:‘Please do not let anything hinder you from coming to me.
For I will honor you greatly, and whatever you tell me I will do. So come, put a curse on this nation for me.’”
Balaam replied to the servants of Balak,“Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the LORD my God to do less or more.
Now therefore, please stay the night here also, that I may know what more the LORD might say to me.”
God came to Balaam that night, and said to him,“If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them, but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”