¹⁶ Then the Lord met Balaam, and ^(A)put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

⁵ Then the Lord ^(A)put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

Balaam Foretells the Happiness of Israel

24 Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at ^(A)other times, to seek to use ^[a]sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

³⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, ^(A)but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.