Numbers 23:7-18

7He took up his 1discourse and said, “From 2Aram Balak has brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the East, ‘3Come curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!’84How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?9As I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; 5Behold, a people who dwells apart, And will not be reckoned among the nations.106Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? 7Let 8me die the death of the upright, 9And let my end be like his!”

11Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? 10I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!” 12He replied, “Must I not be careful to speak 11what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

13Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.” 14So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the Lord over there.” 16Then the Lord met Balaam and 12put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” 17He came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?” 18Then he took up his 13discourse and said, “Arise, O Balak, and hear; Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!