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Numbers 22:20

New American Bible - revised edition

That night God came to Balaam and said to him: If these men have come to summon you, go back with them; yet only on the condition that you do exactly as I tell you.

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But my people did not listen to my words; Israel would not submit to me.

Because you rage against me and your smugness has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, And make you leave by the way you came.

But the Lord answered me, Do not say, “I am too young.” To whomever I send you, you shall go; whatever I command you, you shall speak.

I give you a king in my anger, and I take him away in my wrath.

But, you too stay here overnight, so that I may learn what else the Lord may say to me.”

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam: “Go with the men; but you may say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

Balaam replied, “Is it not what the Lord puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?” The Second Oracle.

Then the Lord met Balaam, and, having put an utterance in his mouth, said to him: Return to Balak, and speak accordingly.

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘Everything the Lord tells me I must do’?” The Third Oracle.

The Lord put an utterance in Balaam’s mouth, and said: Go back to Balak, and speak accordingly.

‘Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not of my own accord do anything, good or evil, contrary to the command of the Lord’? Whatever the Lord says I must say. The Fourth Oracle.

The oracle of one who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows, Of one who sees what the Almighty sees, in rapture and with eyes unveiled:




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