¹⁶ Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.

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

³⁵ The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

¹ When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.