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Numbers 23:16

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Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

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Numbers 23:16 in other translations

And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 23:16 · American Standard Version

Numbers 23:16 in context

  1. 14He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
  2. 15He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
  3. 16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
  4. 17He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has Yahweh spoken?”
  5. 18He took up his parable, and said,
    “Rise up, Balak, and hear!
    Listen to me, you son of Zippor.