Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Numbers 23:5
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Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this message.”
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And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
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The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
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And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
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Numbers 23
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.”
5 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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