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Exactly. Do what works for you. God will bless any honest endeavour!

Interesting post. Many thanks!

All translations are faulty. In different places. That is what makes them all valuable. These days it is easy to line up multiple translations of the same verse or group of verses and by this means draw you own conclusions. Thank God for many translations!

I am always surprised when someone suggests that a particular translation is inherently unreliable. The KJV was formed by a committee of men dedicated to producing the best possible translation of hebrew and greek. They were great scholars and they prayed. Inadvertently they produced a literary...

Indeed. I love the donkey. I think his injured and long suffering tone is hilarious.

It is never a good idea to build a thesis on a single word. The context should be the guide. The men are already there with Balaam. There is no ‘if’, as in ‘if they come to you’.

NIV 19 Now spend the night here so that I can find out what else the Lord will tell me.” 20 That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, go with them, but do only what I tell you.” 21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite...

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Ah, my friends! I would not like to be in a court of law with you as my prosecutors! In verse 12 God certainly said do not go with them and Balaam unequivocally gave them the message from God. When more ambassadors came from Balak, verse 18 gives Balaam’s response ‘even if Balak gave me a palace...

Hi folks, I have always loved this story and of all the possible things to cause a reader problems, I am puzzled by the content of these 5 verses. In verse 18 Balaam makes a declaration that could only be pleasing to God. In verse 19 he asks Balak’s ambassadors to wait, while he enquires of the...