12He answered, "Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?"


In Context

9 From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.

10 Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my end be like theirs!"

11 Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but you have done nothing but bless them!"

12 He answered, "Must I not speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?"

13 Then Balak said to him, "Come with me to another place where you can see them; you will see only a part but not all of them. And from there, curse them for me."

14 So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Numbers 23:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah puts in my mouth?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12He answered and said, |Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12and he answereth and saith, 'That which Jehovah doth put in my mouth — it do I not take heed to speak?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?