1. Balaam said, “Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
2. Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3. Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.” Then he went off to a barren height.
4. God met with him, and Balaam said, “I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
5. The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”
6. So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.