Numbers 22:6-21 Come nowe therfore I pray thee, and curse me this people, for they are to mightie for me, so peraduenture I myght be able to smyte them, & to driue them out of the lande: For I wote that he whom thou blessest, is blessed, and whom thou cursest is cursed

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ Come nowe therfore I pray thee, and curse me this people, for they are to mightie for me, so peraduenture I myght be able to smyte them, & to driue them out of the lande: For I wote that he whom thou blessest, is blessed, and whom thou cursest is cursed ⁷ And the elders of Moab, and the elders of Madian departed, hauyng the [rewarde] of the southsaying in their hande: And they came vnto Balaam, and tolde hym the wordes of Balac ⁸ He aunswered them: Tary here this nyght, and I wyll bryng you worde, euen as the Lorde shall say vnto me. And the lordes of Moab abode with Balaam ⁹ And God came vnto Balaam, and sayd: What men are these with thee ¹⁰ And Balaam sayd vnto God: Balac the sonne of Ziphor kyng of Moab hath sent vnto me [saying: ¹¹ Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, and couereth the face of the earth: Come nowe therefore, and curse them for my sake, if so peraduenture I may be able to ouercome them in battayle, and to dryue them out ¹² And God said vnto Balaam: Go not thou with them, neither curse the people: for they are blessed ¹³ And Balaam rose vp in the mornyng, and sayd vnto the lordes of Balac, Get you vnto your lande: for the Lord wyll not suffer me to go with you ¹⁴ And the lordes of Moab rose vp, and went vnto Balac and sayde: Balaam would not come with vs ¹⁵ And Balac sent againe a greater companie of lordes, and more honourable then they ¹⁶ Whiche came to Balaam, and tolde hym, Thus sayeth Balac the sonne of Ziphor: Oh let nothyng let thee, but come vnto me ¹⁷ For I wyll greatly promote thee vnto great honour, and wyll do whatsoeuer thou sayest vnto me: come I pray thee, curse this people for my sake ¹⁸ And Balaam aunswered and said vnto the seruauntes of Balac: If Balac woulde geue me his house full of syluer and golde, I can not go beyonde the worde of the Lorde my God, to do lesse or more ¹⁹ Nowe therefore I pray thee, tarie ye here this nyght, that I may wit what the Lorde wyll say vnto me more ²⁰ And God came vnto Balaam by night, and sayde vnto hym: If the men come to call thee, ryse vp and go with them: but loke what I say vnto thee, that shalt thou do ²¹ And Balaam rose vp early, and sadled his asse, & went with the lordes of Moab