4. and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”
5. And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”
6. And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.
7. And Balaam took up his discourse and said,“From Aram Balak has brought me,the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:‘Come, curse Jacob for me,and come, denounce Israel!’
8. How can I curse whom God has not cursed?How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?
9. For from the top of the crags I see him,from the hills I behold him;behold, a people dwelling alone,and not counting itself among the nations!
10. Who can count the dust of Jacobor number the fourth part of Israel?Let me die the death of the upright,and let my end be like his!”