12 Balaam replied, “Is it not what the Lord puts in my mouth that I take care to repeat?”
13 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can see them; but you will see only some, not all of them, and from there lay a curse on them for me.”
14 So he brought him to a lookout post on the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each of them.
15 Balaam then said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I seek a meeting over there.”
16 Then the Lord met Balaam, and, having put an utterance in his mouth, said to him: Return to Balak, and speak accordingly.
17 So he went to Balak, who was still standing by his burnt offering together with the princes of Moab. When Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?”
18 Balaam recited his poem:Rise, Balak, and listen;give ear to my testimony, son of Zippor!