10. Who can count the dust of Jacob, or as a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!”
11. And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!”
12. He answered and said, “Should I not speak what Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
13. Then Balak said, “Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”
14. So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there.”