Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Then the Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."
New American Standard Bible
Then the Lord
King James Version
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Holman Bible
Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”
International Standard Version
Then the LORD gave Balaam this message. "Return to Balak and speak to him."
A Conservative Version
And LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shall speak.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
Amplified
Then the Lord put a speech in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.”
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
Julia Smith Translation
And Jehovah will put the word in Balaam's mouth, and say, Turn back to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
King James 2000
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall speak.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus."
Modern King James verseion
And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, Return to Balak, and so you shall speak.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the LORD put a saying in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Go again to Balak and say on this wise."
New Heart English Bible
The LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
The Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh put a word into the mouth of Balaam, - and said - Return unto Balak, and, thus, shalt thou speak.
Webster
And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
World English Bible
Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
Youngs Literal Translation
and Jehovah putteth a word in the mouth of Balaam, and saith, 'Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 23:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Balaam's Oracles
4 Then God met Balaam, who said to him, "I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram." 5 Then the Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you." 6 So he returned to him, and he was still standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.
Jeremiah 1:9
Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
Numbers 23:16
Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."
Isaiah 51:16
I commission you as my spokesman; I cover you with the palm of my hand, to establish the sky and to found the earth, to say to Zion, 'You are my people.'"
Isaiah 59:21
"As for me, this is my promise to them," says the Lord. "My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward," says the Lord.
Numbers 22:20
God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do."
Numbers 22:35
But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Proverbs 16:1
The intentions of the heart belong to a man, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.
Proverbs 16:9
A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.
Luke 12:12
for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say."
John 11:51
(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,