1And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and
seven rams.
2And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and
Balak and Balaam offered on every altar
a bullock and a ram.
3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy
burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD
will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I
will tell thee. And he went to an high place.
4And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I
have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar
a bullock and a ram.
5And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth,
and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt
speak.
6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood
by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of
Moab.
7And he took up his parable, and said, Balak
the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of
the mountains of the east, saying,
Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?
or how shall I defy, whom the
LORD hath not defied?
9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and
from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall
dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the
nations.
10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the
number of the fourth part of
Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and
let my last end be like his!
11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou
done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies,
and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.
12And he answered and said, Must I not take
heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my
mouth?
13And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee,
with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest
see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of
them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them
from thence.
14And he brought him into the field of Zophim,
to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and
offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
15And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy
burnt offering, while I meet the
LORD yonder.
16And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in
his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say
thus.
17And when he came to him, behold, he stood
by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with
him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD
spoken?
18And he took up his parable, and said, Rise
up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of
Zippor:
19God is not
a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man,
that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he
not do it?
or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20Behold, I have received commandment to
bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the
LORD his God is with
him, and the shout of a king is among
them.
22God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as
it were the strength of an unicorn.
23Surely there
is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is
there any divination against Israel: according
to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of
Israel, What hath God wrought!
24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great
lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall
not lie down until he eat of the
prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
25And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse
them at all, nor bless them at all.
26But Balaam answered and said unto Balak,
Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh,
that I must do?
27And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray
thee, I will bring thee unto another place;
peradventure it will please God that thou mayest
curse me them from thence.
28And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of
Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
29And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here
seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and
seven rams.
30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and
offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.