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Numbers 23:5
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt 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 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: it may be the LORD will come to meet me: and whatever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a high place.
4 And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
6 And he returned to him and lo, he stood by his burnt-sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?
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