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Numbers 23:5
“Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
Verse in context — Numbers 23
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.
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.
Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.
He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
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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Israel’s wilderness journey, marked by rebellion, discipline, and God’s faithfulness.
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