Numbers 22:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

not go. This is absolute. Compare Numbers 22:20, where the permission is conditional. See Structure above.

thou shalt not curse.. special various reading called Sevir (see App-34), with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "neither shalt thou".

Numbers 22:12

12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.