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Numbers 23:5
The LORD 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 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 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height.
4 God 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.”
5 The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 He 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.
8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
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