Numbers 23:1-8 ▼

1 Then Balaam said to Balak, |Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.|

2 Balak did just as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.

3 Then 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.| So he went to a bare hill.

4 Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, |I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.|

5 Then the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, |Return to Balak, and you shall speak thus.|

6 So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.

7 He took up his discourse and said, |From Aram Balak has brought me, Moab's king from the mountains of the East, Come curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!'

8 |How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?