Numbers · ot_protestant
Numbers 23:19
Text
TextGod is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Parallel translations
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KJV
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
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Narrator and speaker
Analysis- Narrator
- Third-person narrator of Numbers
- Speech type
- poetry
- Reported speaker
- Balaam
- Quotation level
- 1
Textually established
The narrator reports Balaam uttering an oracle stating that God is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should repent.
Not established by grammar alone
The statement is within a reported oracle. Treating it as the narrator’s own doctrinal assertion is an interpretive step beyond what the attribution establishes.
This record exists to make a methodological point visible: a statement quoted inside an oracle and a statement made by the narrator are different kinds of textual evidence, even when both appear in scripture.
This is a literary distinction between narration and independently established occurrence. It is not an argument that the reported event did not occur, and not an argument that it did.
Textual variants
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Manuscripts
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Cross references
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