16The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."


In Context

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.

15 Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there."

16 The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."

17 So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the princes of Moab. Balak asked him, "What did the Lord say?"

18 Then he uttered his oracle: "Arise, Balak, and listen; hear me, son of Zippor.

Numbers 23:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:16And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:16And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:16And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say thus.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:16Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, |Return to Balak, and say this.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:16and Jehovah cometh unto Balaam, and setteth a word in his mouth, and saith, 'Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak, and say thus.