1 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build me seven altars here, and here prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me.”
2 So Balak did as Balaam had ordered, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I go over there. Perhaps the Lord will meet me, and then I will tell you whatever he lets me see.” And so he went out on the barren height.
4 Then God met Balaam, and Balak said to him: “I have erected the seven altars, and have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”
5 The Lord put an utterance in Balaam’s mouth, and said: Go back to Balak, and speak accordingly.
6 So he went back to Balak, who was still standing by his burnt offering together with all the princes of Moab.