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Numbers 23:5 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Numbers 23:5

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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.

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 The LORD 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.

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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 23:6

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

Numbers 23:7

"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."

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