Numbers 23:12
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He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

Numbers 23:20,26 I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder. . . .

Numbers 22:38 He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?

Numbers 24:13 If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I will speak?

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.

Context
Balaam's First Oracle
11And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them. 12He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?
Cross References
Exodus 4:15
Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth: and I will be in thy mouth, and in his month, and will shew you what you must do.

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 23:13
Balac therefore said: Come with me to another place from whence thou mayest see part of Israel, and canst not see them all: curse them from thence.

Lexicon
But [Balaam] replied,
וַיַּ֖עַן (way·ya·‘an)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond

“Should I not
הֲלֹ֗א (hă·lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

speak
לְדַבֵּֽר׃ (lə·ḏab·bêr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

exactly what
אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

the LORD
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

puts
יָשִׂ֤ים (yā·śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

in my mouth?”
בְּפִ֔י (bə·p̄î)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to


Additional Translations
But Balaam replied, “Should I not speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

And Balaam said to Balac, Whatsoever the Lord shall put into my mouth, shall I not take heed to speak this?

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah puts in my mouth?

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"

and he answereth and saith, 'That which Jehovah doth put in my mouth -- it do I not take heed to speak?'
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