Numbers 23:5
King James VersionSource notes
“And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.”
Context
2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on altar a bullock and a ram.
3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon altar a bullock and a ram.
5And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, the LORD hath not defied?