1. And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars, and prepare for me seven oxen and seven rams.”
2. Balak did as Balaam had spoken, and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram.
3. Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a high place.
4. God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on every altar a bull and a ram.”
5. The Lord put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you will speak.”
6. So he returned to Balak, who was standing by his burnt offering with all the princes of Moab.
7. Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying: “Balak has brought me from Aram,the king of Moab from the mountains of the east,saying, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me,and come, defy Israel!’