Numbers 23:16

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and say this."

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 23:5 : 5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."
  • Num 24:1 : 1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
  • Num 22:35 : 35 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

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  • Num 23:1-7
    7 verses
    93%

    1 Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

    2 Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.

    3 Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.

    4 God met Balaam: and he said to him, "I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar."

    5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

    6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.

    7 He took up his parable, and said, "From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

  • Num 23:17-18
    2 verses
    88%

    17 He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?"

    18 He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

  • Num 23:15
    87%

    15 He said to Balak, "Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet [Yahweh] yonder."

  • Num 22:34-39
    6 verses
    86%

    34 Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me. Now therefore, if it displeases you, I will go back again."

    35 The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

    36 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

    37 Balak said to Balaam, "Didn't I earnestly send to you to call you? Why didn't you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?"

    38 Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak."

    39 Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.

  • Num 22:18-23
    6 verses
    83%

    18 Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

    19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."

    20 God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that you shall do."

    21 Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.

    22 God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed himself in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

    23 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.

  • Num 23:11-13
    3 verses
    81%

    11 Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."

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

    13 Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place, where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there."

  • Num 22:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7 The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

    8 He said to them, "Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me." The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

    9 God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"

    10 Balaam said to God, "Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, [saying],

  • Num 23:25-27
    3 verses
    81%

    25 Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all."

    26 But Balaam answered Balak, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?'"

    27 Balak said to Balaam, "Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse me them from there."

  • Num 24:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12 Balaam said to Balak, "Didn't I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying,

    13 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says'?

  • Num 24:25
    79%

    25 Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

  • Num 22:12-14
    3 verses
    79%

    12 God said to Balaam, "You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people; for they are blessed."

    13 Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land; for Yahweh refuses to permit me to go with you."

    14 The princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, "Balaam refuses to come with us."

  • Num 22:41
    78%

    41 It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.

  • Num 24:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

    2 Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came on him.

    3 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Num 22:16
    77%

    16 They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

  • Num 22:5
    76%

    5 He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

  • Num 22:31
    76%

    31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

  • Num 24:15
    75%

    15 He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

  • Num 22:28
    75%

    28 Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?"