Numbers 23:16 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁶ And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

Numbers 23:16 Cross References

Numbers 22:20

And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.”

Numbers 22:35

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men; but only the word which I bid you, that shall you speak.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Numbers 23:15

Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.”

Numbers 23:17

And he came to him, and lo, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

Numbers 23:5

And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Numbers 24:1

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

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.