Numbers 23:3-12 Then Balaam said to Balak:Station yourself at your ascent offering and let me go. Perhaps Yahweh shall happen to meet me; then whatever word He shall show me I will tell you. So he went off to the ridge.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Then Balaam said to Balak:Station yourself at your ascent offering and let me go. Perhaps Yahweh shall happen to meet me; then whatever word He shall show me I will tell you. So he went off to the ridge. ⁴ Elohim met Balaam, and he said to Him:The seven altars have I arranged, and I offered up a young bull and a ram on each altar. ⁵ Yahweh placed a word in the mouth of Balaam and said:Return to Balak and thus shall you speak. ⁶ So he returned to him and behold, he and all the chiefs of Moab were stationed at his ascent offering. ⁷ He took up his discourse and said:From Syria Balak gave me guidance, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east:Come now and curse Jacob for me! And come now and menace Israel. ⁸ How should I revile when El has not reviled him? How should I menace when Yahweh has not menaced? ⁹ For from the summit of the rocks I am seeing him, and from the hills I am regarding him. Behold, the people is tabernacling by itself alone, and among the nations it is not reckoning itself. ¹⁰ Who counts the soil-drift of Jacob? And who numbers the dust cloud of Israel? May my soul die the death of the upright, and may my hereafter be just as his!" ¹¹ Then Balak said to Balaam:What have you done to me? To revile my enemies I took you, yet behold, you bless, yea bless them!" ¹² Yet he answered and said:What Yahweh places in my mouth, is it not it that I should observe to speak?