Numbers
Chapters 23:2-8
New International Version Anglicized
2Balak did as Balaam said, and the two of them offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
3Then 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.
4God met with him, and Balaam said, ‘I have prepared seven altars, and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.’
5The Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, ‘Go back to Balak and give him this word.’
6So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
7Then 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.”
8How can I cursethose whom God has not cursed?How can I denouncethose whom the Lord has not denounced?