Mínshùjì 24:13

13 Bā lè jiù shì jiàng tā mǎn wū de jīn yín gĕi wǒ , wǒ yĕ bùdé yuèguò Yēhéhuá de méng , píng zìjǐ de xīnyì xíng hǎo xíng dǎi . Yēhéhuá shuō shénme , wǒ jiù yào shuō shénme ,

Mínshùjì 24:13 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 24:13

If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold
Which are the very words he said to the princes of Moab, ( Numbers 22:18 ) ,

I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or
bad;
for though here it is the "commandment", and there the "word" of the Lord, yet it is the same word in both places in the original text: indeed, here he omits the relation to the Lord he there claims, saying "my God"; and instead of "little or great", here it is "good or bad", but the sense is the same: and he adds, for explanation sake,

of mine own mind:
or out of my heart, which was disposed well enough to serve Balak, but was laid under a restraint by the Lord:

but what the Lord said, that will I speak;
and he had not only said this to the messengers, but to the king himself, and therefore he thought, that as he had openly and honestly told him this at first, he had no reason to be so angry with him; see ( Numbers 22:38 ) .

Mínshùjì 24:13 In-Context

11 Rújīn nǐ kuaì huí bĕn dì qù ba . wǒ xiǎng shǐ nǐ de dà zūnróng , Yēhéhuá què zǔ zhǐ nǐ bùdé zūnróng .

12 Bālán duì bā lè shuō , wǒ qǐbù shì duì nǐ suǒ chāiqiǎn dào wǒ nàli de shǐzhĕ shuō ,

13 Bā lè jiù shì jiàng tā mǎn wū de jīn yín gĕi wǒ , wǒ yĕ bùdé yuèguò Yēhéhuá de méng , píng zìjǐ de xīnyì xíng hǎo xíng dǎi . Yēhéhuá shuō shénme , wǒ jiù yào shuō shénme ,

14 Xiànzaì wǒ yào huí bĕn zú qù . nǐ lái , wǒ gàosu nǐ zhè mín rìhòu yào zĕnyàng dāi nǐde mín .

15 Tā jiù tí qǐ shīgē shuō , Bǐĕr de érzi Bālán shuō , yǎnmù bì zhù ( bì zhù huò zuò zhēng kāi ) de rén shuō ,