Numbers 23:1-8 ▼

1 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”

2 Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram.

3 And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height,

4 and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

6 And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.

7 And Balaam took up his discourse and said, “From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!’

8 How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?