²⁰ Lo, to bless I have received: Yea, He blesseth, and I `can'not reverse it.

¹⁷ that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which `is' on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

¹² and God saith unto Balaam, `Thou dost not go with them; thou dost not curse the people; for it `is' blessed.'

² And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

¹⁸ And Balaam answereth and saith unto the servants of Balak, `If Balak doth give to me the fulness of his house of silver and gold, I am not able to pass over the command of Jehovah my God, to do a little or a great thing;

¹³ Even from the day I `am' He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?

²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

³⁸ for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,

³⁹ nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that `is' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

³⁸ And Balaam saith unto Balak, `Lo, I have come unto thee; now -- am I at all able to speak anything? the word which God setteth in my mouth -- it I do speak.'