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Numbers 23:16

BalaamBalak

14 So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”

And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”

17 So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.

18 Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.

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BSB
And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”
KJV
And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
WEB
The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
ASV
And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
DARBY
And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
BLB
And YHWH met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
ÅB
Og Herren kom Bileam i møte og la et ord i hans munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt deg!
OTB
Herren møtte Bileam og la et ord i hans munn, og sa: «Vend tilbake til Balak og gi ham denne beskjeden.»
B1930
Og Herren kom Bileam i møte og la et ord i hans munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt dig!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Numbers 23:5

    Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”

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  • Numbers 22:35

    But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

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  • Numbers 24:1

    And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.

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