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Numbers 23:8

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23:8How15 can I curse16 one whom God has not cursed,

or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

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Footnotes

  1. 15 The figure is erotesis, a rhetorical question. He is actually saying he cannot curse them because God has not cursed them.
  2. 16 The imperfect tense should here be classified as a potential imperfect.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

How can I curse whom God has not cursed?

How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

How can I curse

those whom God has not cursed?

How can I denounce

those whom the Lord has not denounced?

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

How can I curse someone God has not cursed?

How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

But how can I curse those

whom God has not cursed?

How can I condemn those

whom the Lord has not condemned?

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

How can I curse whom God has not cursed,

and how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?

Or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?

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