1. Balaam said, ‘Build me seven altars here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.’
2. Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3. Then Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here beside your offering while I go aside. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet with me. Whatever he reveals to me I will tell you.’ Then he went off to a barren height.
4. God met with him, and Balaam said, ‘I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.’
5. The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, ‘Go back to Balak and give him this word.’