1Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me here seven altars and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
2Balak followed Balaam's instructions; after offering a bull and a ram on each altar,
3he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered the bull and the ram on each altar.” Balaam answered, “You stand here beside your sacrifice, and let me go off by myself. It may be that the LORD will meet me. Whatever he reveals to me, I shall tell you.” He went off to a height, where God met him.
4(23:3)
5The LORD put words into Balaam's mouth and said, “Go back to Balak, and speak as I tell you.”
6He went back, and found Balak standing by his sacrifice, and with him all the Moabite chiefs.
7Then Balaam uttered his oracle: “From Aram, from the mountains of the east, Balak king of Moab has brought me: ‘Come, lay a curse on Jacob for me,’ he said. ‘Come, denounce Israel.’
8How can I curse someone God has not cursed, how denounce someone the LORD has not denounced?
9From the rocky heights I see them, I watch them from the rounded hills. I see a people that dwells apart, that has not made itself one with the nations.
10Who can count the host of Jacob or number the myriads of Israel? Let me die as those who are righteous die; grant that my end may be as theirs!”
11Balak said, “What is this you have done? I sent for you to put a curse on my enemies, and what you have done is to bless them.”
12Balaam replied, “I can but keep to the words which the LORD puts into my mouth.”
13Balak then said to him, “Come with me now to another place from which you will see them, though not the full extent of them; you will not see them all. Curse them for me from there.”
14So he took him to the Field of the Watchers on the summit of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15Balaam said to Balak, “You stand beside your sacrifice; I shall meet the LORD over there.”
16The LORD met Balaam and put words into his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and speak as I tell you.”
17He went, and found him standing beside his sacrifice with the Moabite chiefs. Balak asked what the LORD had said,
18and Balaam uttered his oracle: “Up, Balak, and listen: hear what I am charged to say, son of Zippor.
19God is not a mortal that he should lie, not a man that he should change his mind. Would he speak, and not make it good? What he proclaims, will he not fulfil?
20I have received a command to bless; I shall bless, and I cannot gainsay it.
21He has discovered no iniquity in Jacob and has seen no mischief in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, acclaimed among them as King.
22What its curving horns are to the wild ox, God is to them, who brought them out of Egypt.
23Surely there is no divination in Jacob, and no augury in Israel; now it is said to Jacob and to Israel, ‘See what God has wrought!’
24Behold a people rearing up like a lioness, rampant like a lion; he will not couch till he has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”
25Then Balak said to Balaam, “You will not put a curse on them; then at least do not bless them.”
26He answered, “Did I not warn you that I must do whatever the LORD tells me?”
27Balak said, “Come, let me take you to another place; perhaps God will be pleased to let you curse them for me there.”
28So he took Balaam to the summit of Peor overlooking Jeshimon,
29and Balaam told him to build seven altars for him there and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.
30Balak did as Balaam had said, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
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