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.
7. Then Balaam spoke his message: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’
8. How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?