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[1]AndBalaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
[2]AndBalak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
[3]AndBalaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the God will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
[4]Andmessenger of God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon [every] altar a bullock and a ram.
[5]Andthe messenger of the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
[6]Andhe returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
[7]Andhe took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, [saying], Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
[8]Howshall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?
[9]Forfrom the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
[10]Whocan count the dust of Jacob, and who can number of the four parts of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
[11]AndBalak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed [them] altogether.
[12]Andhe answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
[13]AndBalak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.
[14]Andhe brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.
[15]Andhe said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet [the LORD] yonder.
[16]Andthe messenger of the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
[17]Andwhen he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
[18]Andhe took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
[19]God[is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
[20]Behold,I have received [commandment] to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
[21]Hehath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God [is] with him, and the shout of a king [is] among them.
[22]Godbrought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.
[23]Surely[there is] no enchantment against Jacob, neither [is there] any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
[24]Behold,the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
[25]AndBalak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
[26]ButBalaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
[27]AndBalak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
[28]AndBalak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
[29]AndBalaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.
[30]AndBalak did as Balaam had spoken, and offered a bullock and a ram on [every] altar.
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