The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 23:5 in context
Numbers 23:2–8
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Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
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Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.”
He went to a bare height.
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God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
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The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
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He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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He took up his parable, and said,
“From Aram has Balak brought me,
the king of Moab from the mountains of the East.
Come, curse Jacob for me.
Come, defy Israel.
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How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
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