5The Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."


In Context

2 Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

3 Then Balaam said to Balak, "Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went off to a barren height.

4 God met with him, and Balaam said, "I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram."

5 The Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."

6 So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the princes of Moab.

7 Then Balaam uttered his oracle: "Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. 'Come,' he said, 'curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'

Numbers 23:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:5And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:5And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:5And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, |Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:5and Jehovah putteth a word in the mouth of Balaam, and saith, 'Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.