Numbers 23:3-12 And Balaam sayde vnto Balac: Stonde thou by yi burntofferynge, I wil go, yf happly the LORDE wil mete me, & call me, yt I maye tell the, what so euer he sheweth me. And he wente his waye, as he sayde.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ And Balaam sayde vnto Balac: Stonde thou by yi burntofferynge, I wil go, yf happly the LORDE wil mete me, & call me, yt I maye tell the, what so euer he sheweth me. And he wente his waye, as he sayde. ⁴ And ye LORDE mett Balaam. And Balaam saide vnto him: Seuen altares haue I prepared, and offred on euery altare a bullocke and a ramme. ⁵ The LORDE put ye worde in Balaams mouth, and sayde: Go agayne vnto Balac, and saye on this wise. ⁶ And whan he came agayne vnto him, beholde, he stode by his burntofferynge, with all ye prynces of the Moabites. ⁷ Then toke he vp his parable, & sayde: Balac the kynge of the Moabites hath caused to fet me out of Syria from the moutaynes towarde the East, (& sayde:) Come, curse me Iacob: come, defye me Israel. ⁸ How shall I curse, whom God curseth not? How shal I defye, whom ye LORDE defyeth not? ⁹ For fro ye toppe of ye stonye rockes I se him, & from the hilles I beholde him. Beholde, ye people shal dwell by theselues, & shal not be rekened amoge the Heithe. ¹⁰ Who can tell the dust of Iacob, & the nombre of the fourth parte of Israel? My soule die ye death of ye righteous, and my ende be as the ende of these. ¹¹ The saide Balac vnto Balaam: What doest thou vnto me? I caused to set ye for to curse myne enemies, & beholde, thou blessest the. ¹² He answered & saide: Must I not kepe & speake yt, which the LORDE putteth in to me mouth?