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Numbers 23:19
New English Translation

19 God is not a man, that he should lie,
nor a human being,[a] that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?[b]

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  1. Numbers 23:19 tn Heb “son of man.”
  2. Numbers 23:19 tn The verb is the Hiphil of קוּם (qum, “to cause to rise; to make stand”). The meaning here is more of the sense of fulfilling the promises made.
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Numbers 23:19
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19 God is not human,(A) that he should lie,(B)
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.(C)
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise(D) and not fulfill?

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