The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 23:16 in context
Numbers 23:13–19
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Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
14
He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
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He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
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The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
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He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”
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He took up his parable, and said,
“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
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