Numbers 23:12
Good News Translation
He answered, "I can say only what the LORD tells me to say."

New Revised Standard Version
He answered, “Must I not take care to say what the LORD puts into my mouth?”

Contemporary English Version
Balaam answered, "I can say only what the LORD tells me."

New American Bible
Balaam replied, “Is it not what the LORD puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Numbers 23:11
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