Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Numbers 23:16
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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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And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
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The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
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And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
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Numbers 23
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.”
16 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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