Numbers 23:16
Good News Translation
The LORD met Balaam, told him what to say, and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD met Balaam, put a word into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you shall say.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD appeared to Balaam and gave him another message, then he told him to go and tell Balak.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 23:5 And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 22:35 The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.

Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord that he should bless Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,

Context
Balaam's Second Oracle
15He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him. 16And 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.17Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?…
Cross References
Numbers 22:20
God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

Numbers 23:15
He said to Balac: Stand here by thy burnt offering while I go to meet him.

Numbers 23:17
Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?

Numbers 23:15
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