Numbers 22:20
Good News Translation
That night God came to Balaam and said, "If these men have come to ask you to go with them, get ready and go, but do only what I tell you."

New Revised Standard Version
That night God came to Balaam and said to him, “If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them; but do only what I tell you to do.”

Contemporary English Version
That night, God said, "Balaam, I'll let you go to Moab with Balak's messengers, but do only what I say."

New American Bible
That night God came to Balaam and said to him: If these men have come to summon you, go back with them; yet only on the condition that you do exactly as I tell you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.

God

Numbers 22:9 What mean these men that are with thee?

if the men

1 Samuel 8:5-9 And they said to him: Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: make us a king, to judge us, as all nations have. . . .

1 Samuel 12:12-19 But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: whereas the Lord your God was your king. . . .

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Ezekiel 14:2-5 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders: . . .

but ye

Numbers 22:35 The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.

Numbers 23:12,26 He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth? . . .

Numbers 24:13 If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I will speak?

Psalm 33:10,11 The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes. . . .

Psalm 78:30,31 they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: . . .

Isaiah 37:29 When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Hosea 13:11 I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

Context
Balak Summons Balaam
19I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more. 20God therefore came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: If these men be come to call thee, arise and go with them: yet so, that thou do what I shall command thee.21Balaam arose in the morning, and saddling his ass went with them.…
Cross References
Numbers 22:19
I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.

Numbers 22:35
The angel said: Go with these men, and see thou speak no other thing than what I shall command thee. He went therefore with the princes.

Numbers 23:5
And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

Numbers 23:12
He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

Numbers 23:16
And when the Lord had met him, and had put the word in his mouth, he said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou say to him.

Numbers 24:4
The bearer of the words of God hath said, he that hath beheld the vision of the Almighty, he that falleth, and so his eyes are opened:

Numbers 24:13
If Balac would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to utter any thing of my own head either good or evil: but whatsoever the Lord shall say, that I will speak?

Jeremiah 1:7
And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.

Numbers 22:19
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