Numbers 23:5

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Numbers 23:5

And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

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The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then He said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”

Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.

The reflections of the heart belong to man,
but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

I have put My words in your mouth,
and covered you in the shadow of My hand,
in order to plant the heavens,
to found the earth,
and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit who is on you, and My words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouth of your children, or from the mouth of your children’s children, from now on and forever,” says the Lord.

Then the Lord reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and told me:

I have now filled your mouth with My words.

For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,