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!’
8. How will I cursewhom God has not cursed?Or how will I defywhom the Lord has not defied?