Numbers 23:5
Good News Translation
The LORD told Balaam what to say and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD gave Balaam a message, then sent him back to tell Balak.

New American Bible
The LORD put an utterance in Balaam’s mouth, and said: Go back to Balak, and speak accordingly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 23:16 And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

Numbers 22:35 The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.

Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Proverbs 16:1,9 It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue. . . .

Isaiah 51:16 I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.

Isaiah 59:21 This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

Jeremiah 1:9 And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

Luke 12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you must say.

John 11:51 And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.

Context
Balaam's First Oracle
4And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram. 5And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.6Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:…
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 23:4
And when he was gone with speed, God met him. And Balaam speaking to him, said: I have erected seven altars, and have laid on everyone a calf and a ram.

Numbers 23:6
Returning he found Balac standing by his burnt offering, with all the princes of the Moabites:

Deuteronomy 18:18
I will raise them up a prophet out of the midst of their brethren like to thee: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Jeremiah 1:9
And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

Numbers 23:4
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