10. Then the displeasure of Balaq burned against Bil‛am, and he struck his hands together. Balaq then said to Bil‛am, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, and see, you have kept on blessing, these three times!
11. “And now flee to your place. I said I would greatly esteem you, and see, יהוה has kept you back from esteem.”
12. And Bil‛am said to Balaq, “Did I not also speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
13. ‘If Balaq should give me his house filled with silver and gold, I am unable to go beyond the word of יהוה, to do either good or evil of my own heart. What יהוה speaks, that I speak’?
14. “And now, see, I am going to my people. Come, let me advise you what this people is going to do to your people in the latter days.”