Numbers 23:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ The Lord met Balaam, put a word into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you shall say.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And the Lord met Balaam and put a speech in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak and speak thus.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The LORD granted Balaam an appearance and gave him a message. He said, “Return to Balak and say this.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said, "Return to Balak, and you shall say this to him."

Numbers 23:16 Cross References

Numbers 23:5

The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.”

Numbers 24:1

Now Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, so he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens but set his face toward the wilderness.

Numbers 22:35

The angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only what I tell you to speak.” So Balaam went on with the officials of Balak.

Numbers 22:20

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

Numbers 23:15

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offerings, while I meet the Lord over there.”

Numbers 23:17

When he came to him, he was standing beside his burnt offerings with the officials of Moab. Balak said to him, “What has the Lord said?”

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.