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

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

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