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Numbers 23:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD puts in my mouth?” "

Numbers 23:12

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10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

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 the LORD puts in my mouth?”

13 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”

14 He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

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From This Chapter

Numbers 23:1

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

Numbers 23:2

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

Numbers 23:3

"Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me. Whatever he shows me I will tell you.” He went to a bare height."

Numbers 23:4

"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.”"

Numbers 23:5

"The LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”"

Numbers 23:6

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

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