11. Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”
12. Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”
13. Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
14. So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. And Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.
16. Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”