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Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
Numbers 23:5 · Bible in Basic English
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Numbers 23:5 in other translations
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
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In context
2 And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.
3 Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.
4 And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.
5 And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
6 So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.
7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?
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