1. And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
2. And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
3. And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go; peradventure the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell thee. And thus he went alone.
4. And God met Balaam; and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon each altar a bullock and a ram.
5. And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.
6. And he returned unto him, and, behold, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the princes of Moab.
7. And he took up his parable and said, Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob and come, denounce Israel.
8. Why should I curse one whom God has not cursed? And why should I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?
9. For from the top of the rocks I have seen him, and from the hills I beheld him; behold, a people that shall dwell in confidence and shall not be counted among the Gentiles.