The LORD said, "I am going to make you like God to the king, and your brother Aaron will speak to him as your prophet.

Tell Aaron everything I command you, and he will tell the king to let the Israelites leave his country.

Then go to the king and say to him what I tell you to say." Then Joab told her what to say.

I stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations; I say to Jerusalem, 'You are my people! I have given you my teaching, and I protect you with my hand.' "

And I make a covenant with you: I have given you my power and my teachings to be yours forever, and from now on you are to obey me and teach your children and your descendants to obey me for all time to come."

Balaam answered, "I came, didn't I? But now, what power do I have? I can say only what God tells me to say."

The LORD told Balaam what to say and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

He answered, "I can say only what the LORD tells me to say."

The LORD met Balaam, told him what to say, and sent him back to Balak to give him his message.

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

I stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations; I say to Jerusalem, 'You are my people! I have given you my teaching, and I protect you with my hand.' "

Then the LORD reached out, touched my lips, and said to me, "Listen, I am giving you the words you must speak.

and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."

because I will give you such words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to refute or contradict what you say.

For I received from the Lord the teaching that I passed on to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a piece of bread,

And now I want to remind you, my friends, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm.

But you, Moses, stay here with me, and I will give you all my laws and commands. Teach them to the people, so that they will obey them in the land that I am giving them.'