⁵ The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you must say.”^(A)

⁹ Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,

¹⁸ I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet,^[a] who shall speak to them everything that I command.^(A)

²¹ And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says the Lord: my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth or out of the mouths of your children or out of the mouths of your children’s children, says the Lord, from now on and forever.^(A)

¹⁶ The Lord met Balaam, put a word into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and this is what you shall say.”^(A)

⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

¹² for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.”