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!’