Numbers - 23:5

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

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 23:5.

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And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.
and Jehovah putteth a word in the mouth of Balaam, and saith, 'Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.'
And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.
Then the Lord placed the word in his mouth, and he said: "Return to Balak, and you shall say this."
Posuit autem Jehova verbum in ore Balaam, dixitque illi, Revertere ad Balac, et sic loqueris.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And the LORD (c) put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
(c) Taught him what to say.

And the Lord put a word in Balaam's mouth.... Not grace into his heart, nor the fear of God within him, but suggested to him what to say; impressed it strongly on him, that he could not forget it, and with such power and weight, that he was obliged to deliver it:
and said, return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak; that is, unto him, and what is expressed in Numbers 22:7.

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