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Numbers 23:5

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Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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Numbers 23:5 in other translations

And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

Numbers 23:5 · American Standard Version

Numbers 23:5 in context

  1. 3Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
    He went to a bare height.
  2. 4God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
  3. 5Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
  4. 6He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
  5. 7He took up his parable, and said,
    “From Aram has Balak brought me,
    the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.
    Come, curse Jacob for me.
    Come, defy Israel.