Numbers 23:7-18

7Then he uttered his oracle and said, “From Aram, Balak brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the east: ‘Come! Curse Jacob for me! ‘Come! Denounce Israel!’

8How can I curse one whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce one whom Adonai has not denounced?

9From the rocky peaks I see him. From the heights I behold him. Look, he lives as a nation apart, and does not consider himself as being like the other nations.

10Who can count Jacob’s dust? Who can number a fourth of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

11Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you’ve actually blessed them!”

12But in response he said, “Mustn’t I speak whatever Adonai puts into my mouth?”

13Then Balak said to him, “Come now with me to another place where you can see a part of them only, not all of them. Curse them for me from there.”

14He took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah. He built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

15“Stay here beside your offering,” he said to Balak, “while I am meeting over there.”

16Adonai met Balaam there and put a message into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak and speak thus.”

17So he went to him, and behold, he and the princes of Moab were standing beside his offering. Balak asked him, “What did Adonai say?”

18So he uttered his oracle and said: “Rise, Balak! Hear me, son of Zippor!