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Bilangan 23:25
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Lalu berkatalah Balak kepada Bileam: "Jika sekali-kali tidak mau engkau menyerapah mereka, janganlah sekali-kali memberkatinya."
Maka titah Balak kepada Bileam: Jikalau sekali-kali tiada dapat engkau mengutuki dia, maka janganlah kiranya engkau memberkati dia berturut-turut.
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Psalms 2:1-3
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:28 - the charge
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Balak said unto Balaam, neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. Signifying that it would be as well or better to do nothing at all, than to do what he did; but the sense is not, that he would not have him curse them, that he could never say, since he had pressed it both before and after this; wherefore the words should be rendered, as they are by some p, "if in cursing thou dost not curse", or will not curse, "neither in blessing bless", or, however, do not bless: if he could not or would not curse Israel, he would not have him bless them on any account; if he could do him and his people no good in ridding them of their enemies, yet he desires him by no means to do them any harm by discouraging them and encouraging Israel.
p So Fagius, Vatablus; with which agree the Arabic version, and Noldius, p. 221. No. 1024.