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


In Context

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.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:5The Lord put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Go back to Balak and give him this message."

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 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.