1And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bull and a ram. 3And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt-offering, and I will go: perhaps Yehovah will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a bare height. 4And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 5And Yehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. 6And he returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. 7And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, defy Israel. 8How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Yehovah has not defied? 9For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations. 10Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his! 11And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether. 12And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yehovah puts in my mouth? 13And Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from where you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse them for me from there. 14And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar. 15And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt-offering, while I meet Yehovah over there. 16And Yehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak. 17And he came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has Yehovah spoken? 18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor: 19God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? 20Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. 21He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: Yehovah his God is with him, And the shout of a king is among them. 22God brings them out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox. 23Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought! 24Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, And as a lion he lifts himself up: He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain. 25And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. 26But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you, saying, All that Yehovah speaks, that I must do? 27And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there. 28And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert. 29And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams. 30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.