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Numbers 23:5

BalaamBalak

3 “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

4 and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

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

6 So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.

7 And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
KJV
And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
WEB
The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
ASV
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam`s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
DARBY
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
BLB
And YHWH put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
ÅB
Da la Herren et ord i Bileams munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt deg!
OTB
Herren la et ord i Bileams munn og sa: «Vend tilbake til Balak og gi ham denne beskjeden.»
B1930
Da la Herren et ord i Bileams munn og sa: Vend tilbake til Balak og tal som jeg har sagt dig!

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  • Jeremiah 1:9

    Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

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  • Deuteronomy 18:18

    I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

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  • Isaiah 51:16

    I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

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  • Isaiah 59:21

    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.

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  • Numbers 23:16

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

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  • Proverbs 16:9

    A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

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  • Numbers 22:20

    That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

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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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