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.’
6 So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
7 Then Balaam spoke his message:‘Balak brought me from Aram,the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.“Come,” he said, “curse Jacob for me;come, denounce Israel.”
8 How can I cursethose whom God has not cursed?How can I denouncethose whom the Lord has not denounced?