Numbers 23:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² And he answered, “Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And Balaam answered, Must I not be obedient and speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

Common English Bible

¹² He answered and said, “Don’t I have to take care to speak whatever the LORD gives me to say?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² He answered him, "How can I say anything other than what the Lord orders?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

Numbers 23:12 Cross References

Exodus 4:15

And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

Proverbs 26:25

when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;

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 22:38

Balaam said to Balak, “Lo, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”

Numbers 23:13

And Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place, from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there.”

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”

Numbers 23:3

And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.

Numbers 24:13

‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?

Romans 16:18

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.