²⁰ God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but ^(A)only the word which I speak to you shall you do.”

¹⁸ I will raise up a prophet from among their ^[a]countrymen like you, and ^(A)I will put My words in his mouth, and ^(B)he shall speak to them all that I command him.

⁹ Then the Lord stretched out His hand and ^(A)touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,